![]() “Working with my mom is awesome,” Emily says. Seeing one another in the halls of Levine Children’s Hospital provides all three women that little bit of extra support that helps fill their cups and in turn allows them to provide their patients with the same love and support they feel. It is 12-hour shifts and giving your all to help someone survive an illness or injury only to hold their hands and comfort their families when they do not survive.” ![]() It is working weekends and holidays and missing your kids’ games and competitions. “It is long hours on your feet, lots of new and changing technology. ![]() “When someone is struggling to catch their breath and you are able to use your knowledge to open up their airway and allow for them to breathe, it is a feeling almost as good as how they feel when they can breathe normally again.” “The thing I find most rewarding for me as a soon-to-be respiratory therapist, is that I have the knowledge and ability to help someone breathe,” Emma says. That passion and drive inspires all three women in their work to care for the youngest of patients. “As a single mother, my mom showed me the power and diversity of nursing as a career that was rewarding and could support her family.” “Throughout her life she was passionate about helping people,” Jes says. She spent the last few years of her career working at Atrium Health Urgent Care – Huntersville before retiring after 50 years of nursing. Jes’s mom, Geraldine Chismar spent much of her career in the emergency department, but later focused on geriatrics as a Medicare home health nurse and even owned her own nursing business, JOY (Jesus, Others & Yourself) Nursing Service. “My mom had the most tender, giving, and loving heart. The guidance she now provides for her daughters reflects what she learned from her own mom, who was also a nurse. It is giving your all to a patient even when it gets tough.” Health care is so much more than checking off boxes on a task list for 12 hours. “Jes has shown me that being a light for someone during one of the darkest times of their life is a feeling like no other. “My bonus mom, Jessica, has always encouraged me and inspired me in so many ways,” Emma says. Emma is in her last semester of respiratory therapy school at Stanley Community College and is doing her preceptorship in the pediatric intensive care unit at. Her stepsister, Emma Davis, always loved science and though she contemplated a career in nursing, she ultimately fell in love with respiratory therapy. “I make sure everything is stocked and checked to make the nurses have easier shifts and wherever I am needed is where I go,” Emily says.Įmily’s ultimate goal is to be an intensive care nurse just like her mom. As I grew older, I could see that my mom was one of the most selfless humans and changed so many lives throughout her career.”Īs a health care technician on the 6th floor at Levine Children’s Hospital, Emily helps nurses on the floor with things like bed changes, dressing changes, transporting and more. “Even as a young child, I saw my mom as a hero and someone who I wanted to be like. “In kindergarten, we had a career day, and I wore my mom's scrubs and her badge to school,” says Emily Earhart. When Levine Children’s Hospital opened 15 years ago, she chose to focus on pediatric heart patients and is a dedicated member of our intensive care team – work that inspired her daughters. She began her career at Atrium Health 22 years ago, caring for both adults and children after heart surgery. Jes Earhart was first hired in a cardiac intensive care unit as a new nurse graduate in 1992. And teammates are treated like family.īut for these three Levine Children’s teammates, family is not just a figurative way of describing coworkers, it’s a literal description! Patients’ families are treated like family. As is true at many locations across Atrium Health, families are at the center of everything we do at Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital.
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