Nurse who spent most of life caring for Sheffielders calls time on a career spanning 47 years
Nurse Michelle calls time on a career spanning 47 years
A nurse who spent much of her life caring for Sheffielders is calling time on her 47-year career.
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Michelle Bridgewater is set to retire after a 47-year career and plans to focus on fitness, family and music.
Michelle, 66, of Scholes, Rotherham will soon be joined in retirement by husband Gary, who stops work in three weeks.
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Reflecting on her career in Sheffield and Rotherham, she said that ending work would be difficult and likened it to “losing my right arm”.
Michelle began as a nursing assistant at Grenoside Hospital and qualified in 1982, later working in learning disability services and gaining further qualifications in teaching, management and social work.
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She became a nursing manager before a mistaken medical diagnosis led her to pause her career in 2015, but she then returned to take a lead role with RDaSH in Rotherham.
She said: “Since 2015 has been the best. They are a great group of people and I will really miss them.”
Michelle described her career as phenomenal, with no regrets.