About my background: I've been an acute care hospital nurse for the last 18+ years.  For the last 13 years, I've been a float pool nurse at a metro area hospital and I serve almost all departments including oncology, ortho & ortho trauma, gastrointestinal, urology, neuro & neuro trauma, general medical/surgical, mental health, and mother-baby postpartum.  I have extensive experience in being with people during some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives.  I care for babies just hours after they are born and take their first breaths, and I'm there for dying patients as they take their last.  I enjoy being there for my patients beyond passing medications and carrying out care to the person's physical body.  Many times, it's not the surgery or the illness that really needs the healing - it's the living breathing human being on the other side of that.  When care is given to what matters to the person, that's when the real healing can begin.  Although I'm leaving the bedside for this new, up and coming area of nursing, I'm actually still going to be doing what I love the most through being there alongside people as they move forward in their life in some way!