Julie Abbate is a nurse practitioner on staff at Delray Medical Center. Julie has been a nurse for 24 years, 15 of them at Delray Medical. She says the most rewarding part of being a nurse is working with such wonderful, positive and dynamic people who improve patients’ lives each day. Abbate sites the relationships she builds with patients and their families as to what she appreciates most about her profession. She recalls a time a patient was going to be placed into hospice care, and she stayed past her shift to be with the patient until the family arrived. To this day, Abbate says the family sends her a card every year to say thank you. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Barry University and her master’s degree in nursing from Florida Atlantic University. When she’s not at the hospital, she spends her time running and using her Peloton.

 

Amy Calloway is described as an extremely humble nurse. However, it doesn’t take away the compassion and care she provides to her patients. Calloway has been a nurse at Delray Medical Center since 2007 in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit. Her favorite part about being a nurse is seeing a patient who is very sick get better, and eventually be able to go home and be with their family. She also enjoys mentoring other nurses so they can become their best. Calloway received her associate degree in nursing from Palm Beach Community College and went on to earn her bachelor’s degree in exercise science and health promotion from Florida Atlantic University. When away from caring for her patients, she loves to exercise and meditate, and enjoys animals.