Imagine you’re a woozy grade-schooler waking up in the ICU at night… And when you open your eyes, the first thing you see is a nurse on the other side of the glass painting Minions! Or, Raphael and Michaelangelo getting […]
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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
As a photojournalist for more than 20 years, Alan Hawes saw life up close. NFL playoff games from the sidelines. Bruce Springsteen from the front row. Standing on the deck of a barge as the Civil War submarine the H.L.
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Early on the morning of January 5, 2022, Kaitlin Rogers, BSN, RN was driving to work on route 3 when she came upon a sea of brake lights just before the Hackensack River Bridge. A “horrible pile-up” It was barely
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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
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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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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