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Continued from page 8 National Nursing Week honours those who care and the development of new medications, as examples. One of the challenges for Jones and Burton has been keeping pace with that rapidly-changing technology and obtaining training in order to provide patients with the most updated care. "You can't educate them on what you learned in 1970. You have to keep taking courses of some kind (so) you know what has improved or what knowledge is there now that wasn't there when you became a nurse," said Burton. The Internet has become a valuable tool, but at times can be misleading and may create unwarranted panic or worry for people to use the web to diagnosis themselves, Burton said. "Some things they are reading on the Internet are true -- but is it going to apply to their case? You have to make sure that they understand treatment that's specific for their child, not what happened to someone else," said Burton. "Computers can be your friend or your enemy," Jones said. The retired nurses said children are experiencing diseases today that were unheard of when they were in nursing school. Fortunately, medicine is advancing along with the diseases, Jones said. "A lot of these kids can be treated through a family doctor. They're given an antibiotic and sent home, whereas 20 years ago they would have been admitted to the hospital," she said. However, a growing problem witnessed in recent years is a shortage of family doctors. Burton said they're often approached by parents whose babies they delivered. "Generally, you remember them too -- sometimes you remember names, sometimes faces," said Burton. "I could not have been doing the mental and physical work that I've been doing since 1967 if I didn't love what I did -- seeing sick children or sick adults come in, be treated, get better and go home," she said. But for all the things that have changed in 40 years, one thing remains -- a nurse's commitment to patients. "When I first went into training we were asked, `What is the most important thing in the hospital?'" Burton recalls. "The doctors? No. The answer is the patient... and to this day that is still a very important question." Marsha Appleby is a nurse at OTMH with more than 30 years under her cap and organized the retirement celebrations for Burton and Jones. "Some of their pediatric patients, have then been their patient on obstetrics years later. These are two wonderful nurses and lovely people. They are old-school, who have survived and continue to thrive with all the changes that have occurred in nursing. Glass thermometers to electronic, paper charting to computer, white stockings, caps and duty shoes to colourful uniforms," said Appleby. "They still practise bedside care that can sometimes be missing in newer staff. They have seen the changes in the hospital, they have outlived some of their bosses. They can handle a critical child that is airlifted out, to a jaundiced newborn with a crying mom, to a 17 year old who decided life was not to be endured," said Appleby. "They cared for my daughter when she had to be admitted as a child. When I want info and suggestions, they are my first resource. We may have the computer and manuals and handbooks, but experience cannot be ignored. When equipment fails, as it can, someone can remember how it used to be done," said Appleby. "When a parent of a child newlyhospitalized is overwhelmed, Kathy and Dorothy care for the child and then turn and comfort the parent, whether it is with (a) tissue or a cup of tea. It is not about getting overtime money because you missed lunch, or stayed late to help out, it is about someone noticing that you were there 13 · Thursday, May 10, 2012 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.insideHALTON.com and that you made a difference in someone's life that day. Someone is better because of you," said Appleby. 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