Marcel O Neill Biography
Profile: Maureen O’Neill It is the season of giving and Maureen O’Neill has been giving to her family and strangers her entire life. She has seen has seen many things throughout her life. O’Neill was witness to the beginning of organ donations in the North New Jersey area as well as been involved with open-heart surgeries when doctors and the technology could only perform one or two a week.
“I really wanted to help people,” Maureen O’Neill said. Which explains why she has worked in the medical field for 52 years as a registered nurse in hospitals as well as a cardiologist office.
Today, the 73-year-old is now more commonly known as “Nan” by her five grandchildren and most of their friends. She is putting the needs of her family first while still working as a nurse for a cardiologist’s office two to three times a week.
O’Neill attended nursing school right after she graduated from high school. “It was a good profession to be for …show more content…
ladies,” O’Neill said. “It was something you could continue to do after you got married and had children. It was more of a career than just a job in the office.”
This need to help other has followed her in every aspect of her life. She has put her own discomforts aside for the benefit of the patient. She has gone as far for a patient as flying in helicopter during a snowstorm. “I had never flown before,” O’Neill said. “It just kind of came about as a set of circumstances. I was part of the team to stabilize him and we were getting him ready for the medical transport [to Philadelphia]. Someone just turned around and asked “can you go” and it just happened.” She then had to be relayed by ambulances back from the hospital all the way up the New Jersey Turnpike. “My priority was to be home,” O’Neill said.
Her husband, Kevin O’Neill, was sick with a chronic illness that was closely related to the cardio field that O’Neill had been working in for a majority of her adult life. “The good part was what I had done for so many other people, I didn’t have to have a stranger do it to him,” she said. “I was glad I had the training in the area that particularly needed to help him.” Her only negative in her life is no longer having her husband but she is glad he is no longer suffering.
O’Neill has taught others that family comes first and love is unconditional. She is the example I try to live by,” her daughter, Christine Ryan, said.
O’Neill isn’t too sure what lies ahead for her. She believes that she’ll know when the time has come to be done. “I am lucky enough to have enjoyed my job,” she said. “I’m the all American story, married the boy next door, lived in the same town my whole life, raised our kids, have amazing grandchildren and you know there aren’t many negatives along the
way.”
“I really wanted to help people,” Maureen O’Neill said. Which explains why she has worked in the medical field for 52 years as a registered nurse in hospitals as well as a cardiologist office.
Today, the 73-year-old is now more commonly known as “Nan” by her five grandchildren and most of their friends. She is putting the needs of her family first while still working as a nurse for a cardiologist’s office two to three times a week.
O’Neill attended nursing school right after she graduated from high school. “It was a good profession to be for …show more content…
ladies,” O’Neill said. “It was something you could continue to do after you got married and had children. It was more of a career than just a job in the office.”
This need to help other has followed her in every aspect of her life. She has put her own discomforts aside for the benefit of the patient. She has gone as far for a patient as flying in helicopter during a snowstorm. “I had never flown before,” O’Neill said. “It just kind of came about as a set of circumstances. I was part of the team to stabilize him and we were getting him ready for the medical transport [to Philadelphia]. Someone just turned around and asked “can you go” and it just happened.” She then had to be relayed by ambulances back from the hospital all the way up the New Jersey Turnpike. “My priority was to be home,” O’Neill said.
Her husband, Kevin O’Neill, was sick with a chronic illness that was closely related to the cardio field that O’Neill had been working in for a majority of her adult life. “The good part was what I had done for so many other people, I didn’t have to have a stranger do it to him,” she said. “I was glad I had the training in the area that particularly needed to help him.” Her only negative in her life is no longer having her husband but she is glad he is no longer suffering.
O’Neill has taught others that family comes first and love is unconditional. She is the example I try to live by,” her daughter, Christine Ryan, said.
O’Neill isn’t too sure what lies ahead for her. She believes that she’ll know when the time has come to be done. “I am lucky enough to have enjoyed my job,” she said. “I’m the all American story, married the boy next door, lived in the same town my whole life, raised our kids, have amazing grandchildren and you know there aren’t many negatives along the
way.”