Amy Dixon: The Caretaker Look

The Story Collider

Story Collider, Inc.

Arts, Science, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Performing Arts

4.4 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2014

⏱️ 17 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Amy Dixon is passionate about becoming a hospice nurse, but finds she can't fully understand what the families she works with are going through--until one day. Amy Dixon is a registered nurse with over sixteen years of experience in critical care, home care, hospice, and telehealth/teletriage. She is currently a Clinical Manager in a tele-triage department for a large non-profit home care agency in New York City providing education and after-hours clinical support to patients or caregivers, in all aspects of care via electronic health care coordination. Amy has also studied improv comedy and storytelling at Second City, The PIT, and The Upright Citizens Brigade, and narrative writing in nursing at the Center for Health Media and Policy at Hunter College. As a holistic board-certified nurse, Amy is currently exploring ways to integrate creativity, storytelling, narrative writing in nursing and healthcare. Her blog is at http://www.creativern.com Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: http://www.patreon.com/thestorycollider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	A science story, huh?
0:04.0	Is NYU a scientist?
0:06.0	I felt it.
0:07.0	I was so...
0:08.0	And I just thought, well...
0:10.0	It was that golden moment.
0:12.0	Because science was on my side.
0:20.0	Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives.
0:28.7	This week's story is from Amy Dixon. The story was recorded in September 2013 at Littlefield in Brooklyn as part of a partnership with everyday health.
0:37.4	The theme of the evening was aging. Thank you. at Littlefield in Brooklyn as part of a partnership with everyday health.
0:39.5	The theme of the evening was aging.
0:52.2	So it's 1999, and I'm 24 years old.
0:58.2	I'm moving on for my first job out of nursing school as a surgical critical care nurse.
1:06.4	And I get a call from my nurse manager at the time, and she says a quick, curt, hello, which I find odd because I like her.
1:15.2	And then she asks me to hold on and transfers her boss, the clinical director, who has the first name of a flower.
1:17.7	I'll call her Daisy for the story.
1:21.6	And she has 25 years of experience on me, Daisy.
1:27.8	So I haven't had a lot of contact with Daisy in the few years that I've worked in the surgical ICU, but I figure she's calling me to say that she said, see me go, and wishing me well
1:34.7	on my new endeavors, and maybe giving me some words of wisdom because that's what senior
1:38.6	nurse leaders do, but that's not what happened.
1:42.9	Daisy says to me, I'm disappointed in you, Amy.
1:46.0	Hospice.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Story Collider, Inc., and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Story Collider, Inc. and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.