It takes a special person to be a nurse, Ruth Owens told StoryCorps: 'I love people and I love to help them ... to be a nurse, a true nurse, you gotta have compassion, and I've tried to share my compassion all my life.'
Retired nurse Ruth Owens, left, told her grandson James Taylor why being a nurse"is the most rewarding profession," at their StoryCorps recording in April 2019, in Cookeville, Tenn.Retired nurse Ruth Owens, left, told her grandson James Taylor why being a nurse"is the most rewarding profession," at their StoryCorps recording in April 2019, in Cookeville, Tenn.Ruth Owens, 93, has lived in the same small town in the mountains of Tennessee her whole life.
Before she retired at age 85, Owens inspired several of her children and grandchildren to follow in her footsteps into nursing, including her grandson, James Taylor. "It takes a special person to be a nurse," she told Taylor, 41, during a StoryCorps interview in April."That was the most rewarding profession that you could have. So I'm real thankful for that."
Long before she got into the profession, Owens didn't even know what a doctor was — until, at age 12, she needed one. "I broke my arm and rode up on a pickup truck from the mountain to the doctor's office," she told Taylor.
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