An exclusive interview: Alabama nurse turns nursepreneur after 55 years of service

I became a nurse from a diploma program hospital based in Mobile, Alabama in 1965. And I've had a wonderful career, both in acute care and long term care. I'll tell you a story right off when I was in acute care. I thought that the nurses in long term care are those who could not make it anywhere else. But when I got into long term care, I realized that the best nurses needed to be in long term care or home health.

Because we don't have a supervisor, we don't have a doctor down in the ER. It is you in that situation, and the patient, and what you know, and your judgment is what makes the difference in that patient's outcomes.

Patricia Taylor has been a nurse in long term care and acute care for 55 years- and is now turning her experience into nursepreneurship.

She shares her experience in nursing school and as a new nurse with NurseDeck, as well as her thoughts on what needs to change in nursing Read on for Patricia's belief in the importance of nurses as patient advocates.

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