The healthcare world can employ the most meaningful healthcare workers patients will ever meet. These people are there to comfort patients on their worst days, when people find out they are sick, their parents are sick, or even on good days when people realize that they got better, they fought cancer or as simply as it is a common illness. While grownups have meaningful doctors, the pediatric world is a much different aspect. In the pediatric world, nurses play pretend, make wishes, give stickers, everything is tiny compared to grown-ups. With this scholarship, I want to be a NICU nurse. I have always had a special place in my heart for children. While seeing sick children may be one of the hardest things a person can do, it is so meaningful when nurses get to see them go home with their families no matter how long their stay at the hospital has lasted. Realizing how much love, patience, care, and meaning goes into being a pediatric nurse shows a lot about the person. This scholarship shows how much everyone needs that good nurse in their lives. From personal experience being in a nursing home for BOCES clinicals, having a cheerful tone and a smiling face can do a lot for a patient and their overall experience at the nursing home. A lot of nursing home employees go to work to make money and don’t care about the full aspect and love and belonging of the patient that I'm helping. My biggest goal in life is to help people on their worst days. No matter if I am in a nursing home helping the elderly, in a hospital helping babies, I will always do everything in my power to make their day go a little easier. As much as I want to work with the sick babies in the NICU, being in any department would be one of the greatest chances to ever have. I have experienced surgeries, labor and delivery, the ER, and the ICU. Nurses get to see the good and the bad of everything that happens, but there is only one thing they can do to try to make that patient’s day go better, nurses can put a smile on patients face and just care, listen, treat them like family, do anything and everything they possibly can to make them feel more comfortable. To me personally, human touch means to love and care for the person you are working for. If you can sit down, look at the patient at eye level and just hold their hand. It will mean so much to know a caring nurse is there and wants to care for them. Human touch can be a good and a bad thing, while it depends on what kind of patient a nurse is taking care of. If it’s a small child scared to get an IV, a caring nurse can hold a patient’s hand and let them squeeze it to take the pain away from the needle. If it’s a teenager who is scared and needs to get used to having a safe hand touch them, having your hand can help comfort them when they are going through such a hard time. If it’s an elderly person who has no family and is scared to pass, just a smiling face being there for patients holding their hand can do so much for their self-esteem. Human touch for a person can be the reason they want to keep fighting. If someone needed help getting up to stretch out, walk around, anything and a nurse being there to help them move around can help them out so much, a caring person can be the reason their new knee doesn’t get tight if they had surgery, the reason an elderly person doesn’t get pressure sores, the reason someone doesn’t give up can be in the faith of a nurses hands and a caring nurses human touch by checking in on them, helping them move, helping a new mom take her first shower after having her baby. A nurse human touch can save someone’s life even if it’s just helping them up.