The calling. It’s like waking up in the morning and it’s a really nice sunny day. You know you need to study, or do your laundry or something else…but… you just HAVE to go outside. When you have a cast on and it itches, you’ll do anything to scratch that itch. It’s like that.I won’t lie to you, sometimes it’s hard. Sure it is. You have to do stuff that’s really gross, or you have to hold it in when you want to puke. You have to find the words to make people feel at ease and safe. There are easy moments that are good. Maybe not so much the adrenaline rush that comes with the hard stuff, but it’s what helps you to keep coming back each day, knowing that sometimes it might not be so hard. The good times, the special moments. That’s what makes it easy to get up each morning and go back. You just never know when you’ll get a diamond in a pile of dust. You never know when the magic is going to start, that connection or whatever it is. Something…a look, a feeling, or just a hand on someone’s shoulder. When you experience that, when those magical moments happen, you just know it…that’s the pull. It’s that itch you have to scratch, that sunny day you have to experience. The calling to be a nurse.

Cherokee Uniforms, has what we at Nurses Station think is a terrific award program. Cherokee Uniform’s “Inspired Comfort Award” recognizes nurses and other non-physician healthcare professionals who demonstrate exceptional service, sacrifice and innovation, and have a positive impact on the lives of others. This is the 5th year that the leading designer and manufacturer of healthcare apparel and scrubs has honored inspirational caregivers. The Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award reaches nationwide. Nurses Station salutes Cherokee Uniforms for celebrating these healthcare professionals.

Click here to see the list of 2007 Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award recipients and to read their stories of inspiration.

If you would like to nominate a nurse or other non-physician healthcare professional for the 2008 Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award, click here.

Nurses Station is dedicated to offering nurses and other healthcare professionals quality scrubs at an affordable price. To ensure that we are offering the scrubs that healthcare professionals like best, we have created a brief survey. Help us provide you with the lines of scrubs that you are looking for by filling out our survey. We will add styles, brands and sizes to our scrubs collection based on your answers.

Click here to take the survey. Thank you for helping us help you!