Nurse of the Week: Penn State Nursing Dean Laurie Badzek Honored with National Leadership in Ethics Award
Our Nurse of the Week is Laurie Badzek, LLM, JD, MS, RN, FNAP, FAAN, dean of the College of Nursing at Penn State, who has been honored with the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) Leadership in Ethics Award. ANA created the award to recognize registered nurses who...
Nurse of the Week: Nursing Instructor Dana Lopes Overcomes Poverty in Rural Indiana to Become First Graduate in Family
Our Nurse of the Week is Dana Lopes, a nursing instructor at the College of Saint Elizabeth who overcame growing up in poverty in rural Indiana and became the first high school graduate in her family before continuing on to nursing school. Lopes was born in rural...
Nurse of the Week: Stanley Stinson Pursues Nursing Career Inspired by Past as a Young Homeless Man
Our Nurse of the Week is Stanley Stinson, a recent nursing graduate of Concordia University who has allowed his past experience as a young homeless man inspire him to help the homeless, disabled, mentally ill, and drug-addicted. For Stinson, these issues are personal,...
Nurse of the Week: Cassie Dietrick, Mother of Two, Overcomes Deployment to Afghanistan While Working Toward Nursing Degree
Our Nurse of the Week is Cassie Dietrick, a mother of two who worked two jobs and overcame a deployment to Afghanistan, but never stopped working toward a nursing degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW-Madison). Dietrick completed her nursing education...
Nurse of the Week: Nursing Student Bethany Moore Designs College Experience to Serve Those Close to Home
Our Nurse of the Week is Bethany Moore, a senior nursing student in the School of Nursing and Allied Health (SONAH) at Western Kentucky University (WKU), who has designed her college experience to allow her to receive her nursing degree while serving those closer to...
Nurse of the Week: US Marine Veteran Tori Levine Aims to Become Nurse Anesthetist for Doctors Without Borders
Our Nurse of the Week is Tori Levine, 22, a US Marine veteran and current nursing student at Stony Brook University who wants to become a nurse anesthetist for Doctors Without Borders. Levine is from Dix Hills, NY, and says she knew she wanted to enlist in the...
Nurse of the Week: Nurse Nathan May Finds Passion for Connecting with Pediatric Cardiac Patients
Our Nurse of the Week is Nathan May, a 27-year-old nurse at Riley Hospital for Children, who has a passion for connecting with his pediatric cardiac patients. The gift that May brings to his patients is largely in his bedside manner, not his clinical skills. He has...
Nurse of the Week: Oncology Nurse Abbey Lacy Takes Cancer Patient Skydiving to Cheer Him Up
Our Nurse of the Week is Abbey Lacy, a nurse at Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center in Omaha, NE, who took her cancer patient, Ray Jolly, skydiving during a particularly rough week. Jolly is 66 years old and was diagnosed with Myelodysplastic Syndrome, a type of blood...
Nurse of the Week: Mark Cavender Starts Nursing School at 54, Proves Age is Just a Number
Our Nurse of the Week is Mark Cavender, a 56-year-old and previous US service member from Conway, Arkansas, who started nursing school at age 54, proving that age is just a number when you’re achieving your dreams. Cavender tells thebl.com, “I get some funny looks...
Nurse of the Week: Nurse Lori Wood ‘Adopts’ Homeless Man So He Can Receive Heart Transplant
Our Nurse of the Week is Lori Wood, 57, a nurse at Piedmont Newnan Hospital in Georgia, who became the guardian of a homeless patient so that he could receive a heart transplant. Wood’s patient, Jonathan Pinkard, had been disqualified from the waiting list for a...
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