To
most children when you ask who their hero is they’ll name either their mom, dad
or both. My mom, Nicole Rooney is one my biggest role models and certainly my
hero in life. Nicole is one of six children and grew up most of her life in
Philadelphia, Pa. She is 5’4” has blonde hair, brown eyes and most of the time has a great big smile on her face. She started what
people call their “real” life earlier than most. At age 15 she found out she
was pregnant and was having a baby girl, that just so happens to be me. She
struggled with this being as the simple fact that she was extremely young and didn’t
know what to expect. After I was born her and my dad got married, saved 30,000
and bought their very own house. For most her life she worked at a pizzeria as
a manager and then at the Crowne Plaza hotel as a house keeping manager. As her
life continued on throughout the years she had 4 more children 3 boys and 1
girl, Scott Keith, Ryan and Chloe.
When
starting out her life so young she wasn’t able to go to college. She had to
make do with what she had and the opportunities that she was presented with. One
day she decided that wasn’t enough for her and she continued onto college at
the age of 24. She attended Bucks County Community College Nursing school where
she completed school part time and received her associate’s degree in nursing
as an RN. She now works at Aria Bucks Hospital in Langhorne, Pa, Holy Redeemer
Hospital and St. Mary’s Trauma center as an Emergency Room RN and a nursing supervisor.
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| "Emergency Room Entrance" |
Her day begins every day by getting up, getting ready and being out the door by 6:15-6:30 am to stop get a warm Dunkin Donuts hot coffee with extra cream very light sugar and arriving at work by 7 am sharp. Pulling up to Aria Bucks Hospital is a tall gray building with bright teal lettering spelling out Aria Health. While parking in a spot labeled ER personnel she gets out of the car and makes her way through two big glass doors. A huge sign with big red letters reads Emergency over top.
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| "One of the beds in the Emergency Room with all of its equipment ready to use when necessary" |
Every day she attends work it’s a whole new experience for her. She gets to help people of all age, gender, race, etc. Every person is different and so are their reasoning for coming into the ER so it creates a wide variety of learning experience for her. She says “The only time my job is boring is when I have no patients to care for.” She tells me how much she likes to help people and she enjoys seeing and learning new ways to care for them. “My favorite part of working in the Emergency Room is seeing something new every day. I enjoy the different atmosphere every time I come in and the gory, gross situations I get to see.”
Nicole stated that
she has seen almost everything whether it be cuts, broken bones, gunshot
wounds, brains, drug addicts, car accident victims and the list goes on. The
one thing she had the chance to do which she has never done before in her life
was help deliver a baby, stabilize the baby and the mother and send them off to
a hospital able to take care of them properly. It was a life changing
experience for her because she was never trained how to deal with that situation
since her hospital doesn’t have a maternity ward. It was so different than what
she is used to and she is surprised at the fact that she ever even got the
chance to do that but the ambulance had brought the mother to the closest
hospital possible. “It was cool but I’m not certified as a maternity nurse so
it made me nervous and wasn’t sure what to expect when it happened. I’m used to
trauma victims because that is what my hospital specializes in.” As a nurse
though you are required by law to help someone in need if you are physically
capable of doing so and they permit you consent, so it’s more of an obligation
for them to do so.
Everyone thinks
being a nurse is like being a school nurse. People perceive them to be the
pretty doctor’s assistant when they’re so much more than that. Some people
think the doctors do all the work when in all reality the nurses do a lot more
than they receive credit for. Nurses do all the labor and processing of a
patient where doctor’s check off and tell them overall what is wrong with them
and why. I don’t think nurses are recognized enough for what they do and should
be more appreciated than they are. My mom saves lives every day of her life,
she helps people with their conditions and nourishes them back to health. It
may seem like nurses don’t do a lot but you should go watch one for the day and
then make a judgment based on what they are made to do and deal with throughout
their long 12 or even 16 hour shifts.
My mom is my hero
and a hero to all of her patients she has treated over the years. She makes
sure they have what they need and they're as comfortable as they could be
while being treated for. She has succeeded with everything she has ever done in
her life and she truly is an inspiration to everyone surrounding her. Her colleagues admire her for the leadership role she takes on each day at work. As her day is coming to an end and she starts to wrap up her shift the
next shift nurse appears. When the next nurse comes to take over she sits down
at her computer gives an in depth analysis of what she has done all day with
each patient and which patients are being admitted and which ones are being
released. She tells the next nurse each bed number, what they are here for and
how they’ve been helped thus far. She then packs up her bags, grabs her jacket
says good bye to all of her friends and faculty members and ventures home to
her family. After a long day at work she finally gets to eat dinner with her family, relax and sleep before shengets up
and starts the routine all over again.
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