Nurse of the Week Mary Schaaf has been a nurse since the days of white uniform dresses and nurse caps. She’s 77 now but has no plans to retire at this point. On March 25, the 77-year-old Omaha RN will […]
And the question is, “Who is Joanne Mercer, BSN?” Okay, our Nurse of the Week did not win Jeopardy! on Monday night, but she made an impressive showing in a battle of Ohio natives. The 21-year-old nurse faced a now-famous
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The 6 years that have passed since a gunman mowed down her Bible study class at Emanuel AME have been busy for the former prison nurse who was among the five survivors. When the brutal shooting took place, Polly Sheppard
By the time an assassin’s bullet killed Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968, the much-loved – and much-hated – SCLC leader had long become inured to the likelihood that he would not see his daughters grow up. Once
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This Nurse of the Week clearly understands the value of companion animals in healing. Jennifer Smith is an RN at the Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Rome, New York. She works in the Center’s adult day health care program,
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For their determination, courage, negotiating chops, and commitment to their patients and nursing excellence, this week surely belongs to the 700 nurses of St Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. Our Nurses of the Week are ready to “come home” after
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It has almost nothing to do with aromatherapy, candles, or even yoga. As a nurse, you probably respond to the myriads of articles and social media posts on “self-care” with a dubious shrug. Authors of lifestyle content often imply that
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She lost two relatives of her own to the pandemic and worked on the frontlines when Covid cut short the lives of so many New Yorkers that hospitals needed morgue trucks to house the dead. So, Sandra Lindsay, DHSc, MS,
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A BSN pinning ceremony during a global pandemic is a dramatic event in itself. Amid the celebratory atmosphere, there is almost a mood of military enlistment among nursing grads. Newly minted BSNs are getting ready to work on the “frontlines,”
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Jennifer Grubb, our Nurse of the Week, is a military veteran who is now deploying her hard-earned experience to help others as a nurse. The PA native started her career in 2003 at the age of 20, when she served
