01/07/2025
For those of you who don’t know, I work as a Family Nurse Practitioner at a clinic in Ocoee. I’ve been in healthcare since I was 16. Took a class in highschool to become certified as a CNA, switched over to the ER as a tech while in college, worked as an RN for 10 years all over the place as an ER travel nurse and have landed here in Tennessee as an FNP.
When I think about what my job really is, at any position I’ve been in - it’s taking care of people. I’m fortunate to have had so much experience working from the ground up. I’ve been in big name trauma centers and small town, middle of nowhere ERs.
I’ve spent all of my adult life learning about medication, pharmacology, courses of treatment and cures.
One thing I know for certain, flowers are medicine. Yes, sometimes in the literal sense, but when you are grieving, struggling, finding it hard to come up for air for whatever reason and someone sends you flowers - it’s medicine for the soul. For the heart.
This special bouquet went to someone that one of my co-workers became close while treating her family member as a patient. I didn’t personally have as much to do with this particular patient but being able to provide her with these flowers makes me feel so honored.
I think there’s a reason you’ll see many healthcare workers make the transition and/or addition of flowers in some capacity. When it’s who you are and what you were meant to do, it’s a calling.
It doesn’t matter if I’m giving you an IV full of life saving meds or bringing you a bouquet of flowers - I care about you ♥️ Every face is someone who is important to someone else and that matters to me as a human, a mother, a wife and a provider.
When my daughter asks me what I do at work, I tell her I take care of people. One day when she asks me why we grow and sell flowers, the answer will be the same.
We take care of people 🫶🏼🌸✨