Constance R. Crow, LVN

Clinic Nurse
Spine Clinic

First UTSW job: Medical Office Assistant, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.

Best part about my job: Assisting with patient education and helping connect the missing pieces between provider and patient.

How co-workers describe me: Compassionate and dedicated; loving and nurturing; passionate.

Recipe for success: Tenacity. I enjoy a project or assignment with deadlines – and seeing out the process or accomplishing the task.

Funny UTSW memory: I once tried to take a patient’s blood pressure using an arm that turned out to be an extremely realistic prosthetic. I should’ve known something was up when his wife kept shaking her head. It was my first time seeing a prosthetic with this level of detail and functional use, and the patient was very proud of it.

I wish I were an instant expert at: Being a nurse instructor or educator for new nurses.

Hobbies: Travel – anything by a beach and water will get me excited. The same goes for most genres of music, especially if it’s on vinyl. Other passions are reading, crocheting, and my newest love: being a grandmother affectionately called “Sugar.”

Surprising fact: Before I decided to become a nurse, I wanted to either own and operate a day care center or to be a schoolteacher.