He is married to the former St. Clair Anderson, who was a critical-care nurse until her retirement.
Remembering how underappreciated and overworked she felt as a critical-care nurse in Houston, she says she also wants to raise nurses' self-esteem.
Mark is a former critical-care nurse who retired four years ago.
Ann Hobson-Kelly 57, is a critical-care nurse from Devon.
I'm a critical-care nurse, so when I get home from a night shift it's such a stress relief to sit with a cat on my knees.
Howard worked as a critical-care nurse at Brackenrige Hospital and Seton Hospital in Austin.
And, she said in an interview, she is concerned "not only by the damaging light that this casts on critical-care nurses, but also what it does to families' trust."
Nick Spano, a Vietnam combat veteran who is a critical-care nurse at Central Suffolk sees the entry of men into his profession in simple terms.
His mother is a critical-care nurse at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.
Her mother is a critical-care nurse at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.