Title: Staff Nurse (Retired)

Company: Grand Strand Regional Medical Cent

Location: Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Wielding 48 years of staff nursing expertise, Andrea Ziencik retired her career at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center. As an acute care hospital, she drew upon her seasoned experiences to help them provide care for allergy, cardiology and geriatric services, occupational therapy, outpatient surgery, physical therapy, neurosurgery, oncology services, pulmonary medicine, surgical intensive care, women’s services, diagnostic imaging, the breast cancer center, and the ambulatory surgery center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In five years, Ms. Ziencik sees herself writing poetry and an operating room guide for nurses and technicians.

Ms. Ziencik became a Registered Nurse through Presbyterian School of Nursing, earning honors distinction. Since graduation, she has become captain and chief nurse with the National Army Reserve, and is an active duty deployee for Operations Desert Storm. Throughout her career, Ms. Ziencik has earned the U.S. Army Achievement Medal for Service and U.S. Army Commendation Medal for Service during Desert Storm.

From Ms. Ziencik: “After 20 years working as operating room nurse and doing all specialties, I began open heart and all types of cardiovascular procedures often as a first assistant to the surgeon. The last few years I was the or charge nurse and that is the position from which I retired at a 20 year mark. I was contacted by Grand Strand Medical Center as the hospital was looking for a manager for the open heart surgical team and I accepted the position. After a few years I transferred Same Day Surgery. It was Time for me to stop call and enjoy less stress! After 15 years I retired in June of 2014. I am enjoying work in a free standing surgical center maybe 2 or 3 days a week if I am needed.

“Over the course of many years I wrote things about my feelings maybe regarding life, children, and all the things we all encounter as we walk down the road of life. Thus, the my “WATERCOLORED MEMORIES” was written, and most of the photographs were taked by myself. I am proud to say it was published by Amazon in 2010.

“As a single Mother of two sons I had many second jobs from ED to a cleaning business. I now enjoy five wonderful grandchildren. Life has been a great ride and continues to be full of surprises.”