Kim Volker is busy right now on RiverView’s Inpatient Unit. She works with patients in the Medical/Surgical/Pediatrics, Obstetrics (OB), and Intensive Care Units. She’s credited with staying with her OB patients beyond her shift to see them through their delivery, doing a great job training other nurses, and adding spice to the team. For all of these reasons and more, Kim was recently named RiverView’s Employee of the Month for April.
Having worked at RiverView for 19 years, before working in the Inpatient Unit, Volker worked in the Surgical Department as an LPN, where she received on-the-job training to work as a surgical technician. She also worked for eight years in Home Care as a private nurse for an ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) patient.
Volker grew up northeast of Crookston and attended high school in Thief River Falls. She received her LPN from Agassiz School of Practical Nursing, Crookston, and her RN from Northland Community College, Thief River Falls.
She and her husband of nearly 39 years, Jon, live outside of Crookston. They have two children, Matthew and Tracy, married to Chris. She is a proud grandma to Tracy and Chris’s two children, Everett (3 ½) and Ingrid (1 ½). “My grandchildren are number one,” she reported. Add dogs, Lily and Bullet, and the family is complete. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, relaxing in the pool in the summer, watching movies, and binge-watching a variety of series.
“It’s a privilege and an honor to be named Employee of the Month,” she shared. “There are many of us that have helped in the past months pitching in and picking up extra shifts, being on call, etcetera, to help the department as we train our new staff to specialties and get ourselves to full staff. We have a great bunch of nurses to work with, and working with them as a team is an honor. I would like to share that I would not be the employee I am without my fellow co-workers and supervisor!”
