CHRISTUS St. Vincent’s Post

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There, I'm here with Dana Morgan, Kathleen Jenkins. And what do you do here, Chris? I am currently the clinical supervisor on PC, progressive care unit, registered nurse in the Cath holding area. And how long have you been at Christus? 21 years. November 12th of 1984 is when I started, so I just celebrated my 40th year. And what is your favorite aspect of your job? Just being a helping the community, being around and just being around different people all the time and, and making a difference even just on a daily basis with them. Patient care. I've been an ICU nurse for 37 years. And what do you think you're the most proud about being here and being at Christmas and part of your job, especially being here for so long. Being here for so long, I'm proud of that and I think I'm just proud of all the experience I've gained. I've taken care of, you know, anyone from Nikki to ICU and in between. So just the amount of education and experience I've got is has been really good. Out of the care that we give here at the hospital, the field to be a part of a hospital that is 160 years old, it actually feels really good. It's it's interesting to see like the the history and stuff behind everything and just know that it's been here for so long and just to watch it grow in that amount of time, even the time that I've been here just to watch the expansion has been really neat kind of gross. Have you seen throughout your. And so much just, I mean, medical advances, we went from paper charting to, you know, electronic charting. The hospital is offered a lot more services now than it used to. It's a lot bigger, a lot more patients. So just feel like we can serve the community, a larger number of the community a lot better. Outcomes are good. And the patient responses to the care has been incredible. There's been a lot of improvement over the years. Do you have a favorite hospital tradition? Flu shot clinic has always been. My favorite things we do, it's just been really fun. I'll let you know. You get to see a lot of stuff that you don't normally see because everybody volunteers to go work there and you know everybody in the communities for the most part really happy to be there because they want to get their flu shots. So that's always been fun. Have a memorable patient story. One that comes to mind actually was when I was working on PEDs. I took care of a couple. It was 2 dads and they had a surrogate and they had twin boys and there were seven years ago and I took care of them. I saw them be born and I would discharge. Them and we actually still keep in touch to this day and they send me pictures of their little boy. So that that's one that that I really like. No, I have a little story of a, a very elderly man. I think he was like 92. And he sang that song. Take Me Home again, Kathleen.