Lindsay Norris, an oncology nurse from Kansas City, has had the unfortunate experience of telling dozens of patients that they have cancer. But she never thought she would find herself on the other side of that conversation. After being diagnosed […]
Meet our Nurse of the Week, Melanie Ryan, a critical care nurse whose career caring for young patients in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units encouraged her son to follow in her path, pursuing a nursing degree from Arizona State
Our Nurse of the Week is Peggy Akers, a former Vietnam War Nurse who feels it is her responsibility to share “what war does” and devote her life to fighting for peace. Akers protested the Vietnam War as a student
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Meet our Nurse of the Week, Tricia Seaman, the oncology nurse who adopted her cancer patient’s 8-year-old son after she passed away. Tricia was an oncology nurse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania when she met her patient, Tricia Somers. At the end
Have you heard about the nurse who clocked out at 6:37PM, signed into a hospital at 7:10PM, and gave birth at 7:28PM. No? Then you don’t know charge nurse, Ashley Chambers. Last week, Chambers worked through her shift at Children’s
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The American Nurses Association Illinois has chosen Rachel Reichlin, our Nurse of the Week, as one of their 2nd Annual 40 Under 40 Emerging Nurse Leader Winners. Rachel is the Manager of Care Management for CountyCare, a Medicaid managed health
As a hospice nurse with Mother Teresa Hospice in New Sewickley Township, PA, Kelley Fishovitz has made it her life’s work to help terminal patients. Most importantly, she wants to help her patients die with dignity and in comfort. This
Caitlin Brassington stopped for milk on her way home from a busy shift when, still wearing her scrubs, she ran into an acquaintance who had never seen her in uniform before. After a short conversation, the woman said she had
Meet our Nurse of the Week, Springer Publishing Company’s own Nursing Publisher, Margaret Zuccarini. Margaret was kind enough to share with us her background as a former nurse before her transition into publishing nursing books. After earning her BSN from
After the catastrophic flooding that devastated Louisiana in late August leaving 40,000 houses damaged and 86,000 people in need of disaster relief, volunteers fled to the front lines to help in any way possible. The flooding was considered one of
