
Nurses of the Week: ED Nurses Brave Sewer in Daring Kitten Emergency Rescue
Our Nurse/s of the Week column celebrates the New Jersey nurses who saved Trenton last month. (In the interest of full disclosure, the rescuee's name is "Trent," but he was named for Trenton, New Jersey, so these nurses absolutely "saved Trenton"). The nursing...
Nurse of the Week: “Nurse Hero” Must Be Part of Stephanie Esterland’s Job Description
It was a little before 5 a.m. when Nurse of the Week Stephanie Esterland, RN, OCN, and her son happened upon on the accident, just as a young man staggered out of his wrecked, burning car and collapsed near it. "You could feel the heat from the car. It sounded like...
Nurse of the Week Nicole Bock Makes House Calls: “My Office is Everywhere”
When they hear "ding, dong!" at their door, many of Nicole Bock's patients are old enough that they might expect to see a cosmetic salesperson or vacuum huckster cooling her heels on their doorstep, but having a Nurse make house calls sounds like a blast from an even...
Nurse of the Week: ONC/DJ Paulina Andujo Can Help Anyone Shake Their Groove Thang
Behind the contagious smile of Nurse of the Week Paulina Andujo BSN, RN, ONC lies not only a compassionate caregiver but also a unique talent. "I DJ on the side; it's my creative outlet," the orthopaedic nurse says. "It's my therapy." Growing up in Sunray, Texas, a...
Nurse of the Week: Self-Taught, Unstoppable, and Irascible, Sister Kenny Changed and Saved Lives
Our Nurse of the Week only received honorary credentials at best, but in the end, even a very hostile medical community had to acknowledge that Sister Elizabeth Kenny's polio treatments helped thousands of children in the 1940s recover from the disease without being...
Nurse of the Week: Brittany Wilborn’s Nursing Career Was Well Worth the Wait
“Since I was in, I think, about 4th or 5th grade I knew I wanted to be a nurse,” says Brittany Wilborn, RN. It took the mother of five nearly a decade, but Wilborn, our Nurse of the Week, knows how to persevere and how to pace herself. She has cleared the many...
Nurse of the Week: Margaret Kluin Finally Took a Sick Day… for a Kidney Transplant
Nurse of the Week Margaret Kluin, RN is not the sort to take time off lightly; in fact, until very recently she hadn't missed a day of work in 15 years. Despite suffering from diabetes and later, kidney disease as well, Margaret, a nurse manager in the orthopedic...
Nurse of the Week: NICU Nurse Mary Lovelace Saves Grownups Too
One occupational hazard of being a nurse (or even a nursing student!) is that friends, family, and even brand-new acquaintances tend to buttonhole you for on-the-spot diagnoses and ad hoc consultations. And, since you are completely on board with helping people, you...
Nurse of the Week: CRNA Donna Dzialo Transforms Tools of Her Trade Into Art
Like many of her fellow nurse/artists, Nurse of the Week Donna Dzialo, CRNA has her own distinctive take on Creative Nursing. DailyNurse has spotlighted talented nurse photographers, pop singers, and ICU mural painters, but this might be our first found-objects nurse...
Nurse of the Week: Miraculous Patient Journey Inspired Julia York to Choose Nursing
One week after Julia York’s 12th birthday, doctors told her parents she had less than a year to live. “My parents knew it was bad news, but I didn’t know at the time. That’s not something you tell a 12-year-old,” York said. York had always struggled with migraines,...
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