To those who are never thanked sufficiently or enough

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Thank you for making it special.
Ron

KMATTOX@AOL.COM wrote:
> 
> We spend more time with them than with our families.
> They know more about our moods, our art form, our methods of treatment,  our
> style than we know about ourselves.
> We praise their skill and endurance;
> We note their endless notes and never-ending entries.
> 
> They are the nurses with whom we work minute after minute, hour after hour,
> day after day and year after year.
> 
> This is National Nurse Week and we acknowledge that they too are a vital part
> of these web sites.
> 
> Like family members, we do not fully understand them, we often wonder about
> their moods, but we cannot and do not want to work without them.
> 
> We do not understand how or why the nurses are geographically bound to the
> Emergency Center, Operating Room, ICU, ward, and clinic, we are glad that
> they are focused on the specific targeted job at hand.
> 
> They are they prior to arrival in our positions, and remain to clean up the
> room, patient, chart, when we move on to other locations.
> 
> We depend on them to explain to the patient and the family the meaning of our
> multiple sylablical words.   They must remain at the bedside long after we
> have found some way to disappear from an undesirable situation.
> 
> They are tempted by escalating salaries, agency and registry bargains, and
> traveling opportunities, but loyal to their current team.
> 
> Personalities and moods of these nurses are fitted to the location and shift
> with which they choose to labor.   The night EC nurse is totally different
> from the daytime clinic nurse.   The ICU nurse practitioner is different from
> the scrub nurse.
> 
> More than 200,000 national positions short, they double up to cover the
> needed critical tasks for trauma and critical care needs of every city.
> 
> The skills and spirits of the nurses with whom each of us work are the best
> of the league, for they choose to walk and work in the valley of the shadow
> of death, and they fear no evil, for they are skilled and dedicated.    The
> nurses that toil in the EC, OR, ICU and special care units of trauma and
> critical care are the best of the breed, the most dedicated of the dedicated,
> and the most talented of the talented.    They are driven and strong willed.
> 
> 
> Being strong willed, they can be frustrating and exasperating at times.  But
> so can each of us surgeons, emergency physicians, intensivists,
> anesthesiologists, and other critical care specialists.
> 
> To this brave breed and focused team, to those who are vital to the success
> of the EMS, EC, OR, ICU matrix, to the nurses of our composite teams, we
> salute and thank you.    May our patients benefit because together we care.
> God bless you each and all.
> 
> Kenneth L. Mattox
> Houston

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