Anthony Himan
REGISTERED NURSE SAINT LOUISE REGIONAL HOSPITAL
By Kelly Barbazette
Every day is a new day for Anthony Himan who works as a registered nurse in the emergency room of Saint Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy.
Himan, 35, said the results of a vocational test he took in high school overwhelmingly pointed to a career path in nursing.
“ I remember thinking, who wants to be a nurse? I didn’ t think much about it until it was time for me to graduate,” Himan said.
At the time, his stepmother, who was a nurse, gave him a good piece of advice – to earn his certificate for a nurse’ s aid. Himan did just that, graduating from the Licensed Vocational Nursing program at Gavilan College in 2000 and as a registered nurse in 2004. He found that he liked nursing and stuck with it.
Himan has worked at Saint Louise Hospital since 1998 and has worked in the hospital’ s emergency room for the past nine years.
“ I enjoy the ability to care for people and to help them out with their health and to educate new nurses and new staff,” he said. Himan, his wife of 12 years and their two young children have made their home in Gilroy for the past four years.
Himan also subcontracts for the Gilroy Police Department drawing blood for South County police departments for felony arrest and DUI suspects. He also serves on a hospital committee made up of several departments that studies ways to improve the care and proficiency of the hospital.
Himan said education is important to him and trains new graduates and students who are doing their preceptorships at the hospital.
“ It’ s a great way to give back,” he said.“ Giving back to the next generation is really important to me and raising the education level of the next generation of nurses. If we all rise together as a group of nurses then the care is better than just one person knowing everything.”
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