Featured Nurses

“Truly, your ability to care for another in their greatest moment of need is in an emergency department. It’s about as real life as you get.”

“We put bandaids on a lot of the big issues that we can’t fix.”

“Everything you see in the news today, you get in this ER– the traumatic events, the gunshot wounds– you just have to be ready, on an everyday basis.”

“We deal with diseases here at the hospital. We have antibiotics, we have treatment plans. With gun violence, what is the treatment plan?”

“Right now we are “Post-COVID.” We’re ready now, we’re more ready than ever before after what we’ve gone through.”

“We got a phone call saying this patient possibly has COVID… I realized that this is what I’m supposed to do. In order for me to lead my nurses, I have to be the first one.”

“My job is to look at a patient and say, ‘Is this patient going to die if I don’t intervene in the next ten minutes?”

“We give them temporary solutions, but there have to be other resources out there for ongoing care in the community.”

“We need to make it publicly known what is happening to nurses. We get kicked and punched and cussed at, and we’re expected to just keep a smile on our face.”

“The only difference between me and you is that I’m on this side of the bed and you’re on that side.”

“Everyday, you gotta be thankful. Look at the sky and say ‘what a beautiful morning.’ We’re lucky.”

“There are a lot of refugees in Dallas, and they come to see us. I have these patients who see the world differently, and I get a glimpse into that.”

“We’re probably the best thing that’s happened to them on their worst day.”

“You have to change your mindset that ‘I’m a mom, I’m a person’ to ‘I’m an evidence technician.’”

“You can have a baby born one minute, and a code come in the next minute. The whole spectrum from life to death. And everything in between.”

“There is no other place for them to turn, and so they come to us.”