Employee Spotlight - Britney Floyd, Nutrition and Food Services
March 4, 2024
Britney Floyd - NFS
Britney Floyd (NFS) comes from a long line of strong, independent women, and she wants to set an example for her children that hard work and determination can get you anywhere in life. We recently spoke with her about her career, accomplishments and what Women's History Month means to her.
What is your job title here at EAH? How long have you been with EAH?
Operation Coordinator for Nutrition and Food / CDM Certified Dietary Manager. I have been with the hospital since May 2016.
What inspired you to pursue your current job/career?
After going through a heartbreaking divorce while seven months pregnant and with a two-year-old daughter, I knew I needed to provide for my girls. After having my second daughter, I applied for a cook position in Nutrition and Food Services (NFS) at EAMC. I knew I needed to do more and show my girls that when life gets hard you can't give up and must push on. I decided to return to school and get a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics. The hospital was a huge help to me in starting my path to my goals. I started by attending SAW, the school-at-work program. This gave me the courage and financial backing to get my degree. I am still working on my degree, but I have gotten my Dietary Manager Certification through Auburn University and was promoted to Operation Coordinator of NFS. I still plan on finishing my degree one day once my children get a little older. I have remarried and had two more children. They are my whole world and I push myself every day to do better and work as hard as I can to provide them the best life possible. My grandmother always told us we came from a long line of strong, independent women, and I want to show that to my three daughters.
What accomplishments are you most proud of?
Getting my dietary manager certificate. School was never my thing and it was why I didn’t go to college after high school; I just started working. By getting that I proved to myself that I could do it and that I could succeed in life.
Who is a person in women’s history (whether personally known to you or someone universally known) that has influenced you and who you are today?
That is easy. My mom, Angela Hamby, she also works at the hospital on the Mother-Baby unit. She is one of the strongest women I know. She raised 6 kids, homeschooled all of us, and worked here at EAMC. Now being a mom myself, I see the struggles a mom and wife go through, and working full-time on top of that too is a lot. She is still always there for me, my five siblings, her seven grandchildren, and her patients. She never stops. When there is a new mom with a breastfeeding issue she is always there for them even after they leave the hospital. She still makes it to the grandkids' games and plays, she was there for me during my divorce, and she was there for all seven of her grandchildren's births. She is my inspiration, and I hope I can be half the mother for my kids as she is for me.
