 So my name is Carter Curtis. I'm a registered nurse in the neurosurgical ICU here at Jersey Shore Medical Center. I've only been a nurse for not even four years yet. I grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. My grandma rose, she was like my whole world. She was a nurse and I really wanted to follow in her footsteps. When I was in high school my brother had a stroke. Seeing that and having that experience as a teenager pushed me into neuro. I started this job maybe six, seven months before COVID hit. It was a really difficult thing to do as a new graduate in an ICU. I ended up forming these incredible bonds with the people that I work with and I was taught and supported by just a tremendous team. People come to the hospital on the worst day of their life and it's our job as nurses to provide any measure of relief from that experience as we can. Why do I stay? I love my patients. How cool that like I get to help not only my patients but the people I work with and hopefully make this place better for all the nurses that are coming and for all of our patients that come in.