Georgia Nurse’s Poem Goes Viral

A Georgia nurse recently shared a poem she had written on Facebook. The posted poem went viral on Facebook with over 12,000 likes and has been shared over 17,000 times.

Amy Queen has been an RN since 2010. Amy has worked many areas, but her specialty is critical care, both ICU and ER, but she says ER has always been her favorite.  Amy received her BSN in 2015, followed by her MSN with a specialty in Adult and Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in 2018.  She currently works as an Intensivist in two ICUs, Medical and Surgical ICU at Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton, Georgia.

“I became a nurse because in 1994, I was in a horrific car wreck with my parents that almost killed all of us. My dad spent 96 days in Trauma ICU and Rehab before returning home. For the next 8 years, he suffered strokes and seizures, but managed to never complain and he walked me down the aisle and always worried more about the widows at church than himself.  In 2002, he had a final massive stroke that took his speech and he suffered for 6 months before we finally could get him home and he died 18 days later.

He is why I do what I do.  To give back to all those people who helped us that day on the highway full of glass and blood.  The paramedics, police, fire, nurses, and doctors and all the others involved in saving my family is why I press on every day.”