meet Christian

Christian Gerken

NEPHROLOGY PATIENT CARE TECHNICIAN

I spend most of my days running from patient room to patient room, making sure our nurses have everything they need to care for kids.

As techs, we’re there for everything from making sure patients have had something to eat and drink to wrapping their IV’s so they can take showers to transporting patients to exams. I keep kids company when their parents have to step out of the room for a moment. I feed babies, change diapers and rock them to sleep. It’s not an easy job, but it’s the patients who make your day better. 

I always make sure that when I'm walking through those hospital doors, I’m in a good mood. For the 12 hours that I’m here working my shift, I try to make their hospital experience better.