Meet Nurse Fisk
Boston, MA, USA
Anna Fisk, PhD, RN, CCRN, is a seasoned senior leadership nurse in the cardiac intensive care unit at Boston Children’s Hospital.
With over 30 years of experience in pediatric cardiac intensive care, Anna has been instrumental in providing expert care to critically ill patients and their families.
Her dedication extends beyond the hospital walls, as she has been a Children’s HeartLink volunteer for over seven years, providing training to nurses in India and Southeast Asia.
Anna finds true fulfillment in her role as a medical volunteer. She says, “Being a medical volunteer becomes very personal, one-on-one with a nurse, but you’re also doing a huge global thing.”
“Often,” she continues, “if you’re a good bedside nurse, you don’t think ‘How am I going to change the world?’ But you interact with one person, two people, a unit of six or 20 nurses, and you make a global impact. That is an amazing thing.”
Working in the demanding environment in the cardiac unit has sharpened Anna’s perspective. She affirms, “At Boston Children’s, I work in a cardiac unit that’s busy and big, and we do many complex things. But when you learn more about your peers around the world and see their challenges, you take those things back home and say: ‘Hmm, maybe I could do this a little differently.’ As a medical volunteer, you learn much more beyond your own experience and viewpoint.”
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