This Is Why I’m a Nurse: Donna Deutsch
My mom told me that when I was little, I was always the one wrapping my doll’s arms and putting band-aids on my sisters. The first time I remember thinking about going into nursing was when my sister-in-law became a nurse at St. Cloud Hospital. She graduated from the nursing school here and the more she talked about what she did, I felt like, that’s what I want to do.
“I didn’t think I was doing anything special, but I was there for her.”
I’ll never forget one patient in particular when I was working in oncology. She was the sweetest, dearest woman in the world. She had breast cancer and I spent a lot of time with her during her treatment, so we got to know each other. I shared with her that my husband was a truck driver who hauled pigs, and I would often help him. So she came back one day and brought me the cutest little pink magnet with baby pigs on it and said, “I had to buy this for you because I was thinking of you out there, buying those pigs with your husband.” She then told me that she didn’t know if she would have made it through her treatment without the fun conversations that we had. To this day, I still have that cute little magnet. I didn’t think I was doing anything special, but I was there for her.
Donna Deutsch, RN
Endoscopy
Awesome story
Donna – Thank you for sharing your “why”! It is the little things and conversations we have that make the biggest difference on the lives of our patients and surprisingly our lives too. Once again, thank you!