Nurse's Career Spans 50 Years

by Sheela Philomena on  May 09, 2011 at 1:34 PM Nursing Profession News
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Norma Salahshour celebrates her 50th year of nursing career at The Methodist Hospital. Although The Methodist Hospital and nursing itself have evolved radically over the years, Salahshour just finds the same inspiration to come to work today as she did five decades ago. It all starts in your heart, she explains. I have always been interested in helping people.

Fifty years as a nurse is incredible enough, but five decades working at the same hospital is an even greater achievement. Being a colleague of Norma's has been one of the most significant gifts I've had in my career as a nurse, says Ann Scanlon McGinity, Ph.D., R.N., Chief Nursing Executive for The Methodist Hospital.

Norma is a wise, compassionate and knowledgeable woman who has continuously influenced our nursing organization on its journey towards excellence she is the spirit and heart of what we all aspire to be as leaders of nurses.

Norma Salahshour, R.N., has been a nursing administrator virtually all of her time at The Methodist Hospital. A native of Nederland, Texas, Norma came to Houston in 1961 to seek work as a nurse in the Texas Medical Center.

At that time a female only had a few choices if she wanted to work, she says. You could become a secretary or a teacher, or if you wanted to go to school for it, you could become a nurse.

She was inspired to become a nurse by a childhood friend, who in first grade asked Norma if the two could become nurses together. That stayed with me all of my life, she says. My friend did indeed go into nursing, and I did

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