Marjorie Balleras
October 2025
Marjorie
Balleras
,
MSN, RN, CCRN
ICU
Natividad Medical Center
Salinas
,
CA
United States
She is a natural, caring person, and nurses need that special heart to accomplish a career in this type of work.
When your loved ones are in need of hospital-level care, it is important to make every effort to get to know your patient, even though they may not be their true self in their current condition. Understand their pain level, know all the variables of their injury or their existing illness, to better understand the full dynamics of their condition, mentally and physically. My son’s nurse taught me this, and she seemed to know him in two days what has taken me 35 years to understand. Marjorie cared and shared it, which made the care less tragic and less painful. My son had multiple injuries from a motorcycle accident, plus he is a type 1 diabetic, plus several past histories of broken bones, bone infections, etc. Marjorie was hip to all that ailed him, and she knew it would be a love-hate relationship. Marjorie was so busy yet so attentive to my son’s needs as well as her other patients’ needs. She is a natural, caring person, and nurses need that special heart to accomplish a career in this type of work. This nurse has all that a nurse is and more. Marjorie is an asset to your establishment here. She is smart and works hard. Those are rare qualities these days.