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My name is Judy Olive, I've been a Registered Nurse for 35 years.
I'm currently a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Perinatal
Division at Kaiser Oakland.
How has the nursing profession changed since you started?
One way that I think is a really awesome and beneficial way that
nursing has changed is the interdisciplinary collaboration.
The mutual respect and camaraderie that happens
between physicians and nurses and laboratory and blood bank
and administrators and managers and
nurses and patient care assistants.
I think the other part is where nursing is going
and I think Kaiser is a classic example of
the technology with Health Connect.
We were able to look at entire populations and see trends.
We're able to utilize technology for simulation,
for training, we're able to communicate to people
in other parts of the world.
Have you mentored anybody?
I think key features for mentorship is encouraging
and promoting, validating, affirming, confirming,
speaking the truth and love if there are things
to actually improve on and carefully look at
and examine lovingly.
I would encourage the nurse to always be a learner.
I would encourage the nurse to always be
loving and compassionate.
I would encourage the nurse when there are difficult situations
or people to seek the good in the difficult people.
There's something to be grateful for in
every difficult situation or person.
If I were asked to think about the best attributes
and characteristics of a really awesome nurse I would say it's
instilling confidence and trust in that patient.
To make a really genuine and sincere
heart connection with that person.
How do you see the nursing profession changing
in the next five to ten years?
It's going back to those basic truths,
the truisms of the heart, the inner spirit
connecting with another person's spirit.
I've danced with patients, giggled with them,
cried with them, so I think all in the day as a nurse,
what I learn to do is walk down that hallway
and appreciate every moment of that shift.
Often times I have piles of letters and cards from patients.
We want to thank you Judy for making our
birth experience wonderful, Judy you made a difference
in our life when we were in the hospital.
Love notes like that where you know
that was a validation of that connection.