For Toni Moses, RN, a UCHealth emergency department nurse in Greeley, taking care of patients has been a profession and a passion for 34 years. She learned she had stage IV ovarian cancer in 2019, yet she has remained dedicated to her patients, staying on the job through successive rounds of chemotherapy, radiation, and other therapies.
Moses, 62, said she has never seriously considered stepping away from nursing after her diagnosis. “It’s been my career. I love what I do. I just thought, ‘This is different for me, so I have to find a different way to do it and keep myself safe.’”
Her experience as both a practitioner and a patient “helps me understand what patients are going through,” she says. “I see them from a different viewpoint. When people are sick, it may not be critical, it may not even be an emergency. But to them, it’s their emergency.”…