Inform us about your self!
Hello! My title is Tamara Peters (she/her), BSN, RN, and I’m the Lead RN at The Emily Program’s Seattle Residential website. I’ve labored with the Seattle Residential crew as a nurse for over 4 years, and I hope to stay right here for a few years to return.
Describe the profession path that led you to The Emily Program.
I’ve been a nurse for ten years. I began my nursing profession as an LPN in 2012 after which earned my ADN in 2014. In the course of the pandemic, I returned to college and earned my BSN in 2021. I really like being a nurse. It has allowed me to assist others and meet many fantastic sufferers and shoppers through the years. I’ve labored in varied specialty settings, together with adolescent behavioral well being, medical-surgical, oncology, and at current, consuming dysfunction remedy.
I take pleasure in being a part of a close-knit multidisciplinary crew on the Seattle Residential website, and I worth the flexibility to offer a extra holistic therapeutic expertise to shoppers. This setting additionally permits for extra time with shoppers to offer assist, construct therapeutic rapport, and get to know shoppers exterior of a analysis. Supporting shoppers of their remedy journey is one of the best a part of my job.
What motivates you to point out up for work every day?
Our shoppers and our nursing crew inspire me to point out as much as work every day. Purchasers are working so laborious on their restoration journey, and that dedication motivates me to point out up and provides one of the best model of myself. I’m additionally motivated by the crew of nurses I work with. My crew is enthusiastic about working in consuming dysfunction remedy and genuinely cares about one another and our shoppers.
What have our shoppers taught you?
Our shoppers have taught me the significance of practising self-compassion. This follow has helped me to be extra resilient, particularly throughout these worldwide difficult occasions.
Should you may do one other job only for a day, what would it not be?
Oh, I must go together with my childhood dream job right here. I might be a paleontologist on a dig website discovering fossils.
What do you love to do whenever you aren’t working?
Once I’m not working, I wish to spend my free time in just a few other ways. I take pleasure in gathering data, going to see reside music, taking part in pinball, spending time in nature, or hanging out at dwelling watching a sci-fi film with my husband, our two canine, and our cat.