Nurse of the Week: Cailly Simpson Combined Law Studies with Nursing During COVID Outbreak
“Time management has been my best friend,” says Nurse of the Week Cailly Simpson. Although she left nursing in 2017 to study law at Rutgers, when the pandemic hit, the 26-year-old immediately felt an instinctive need to help. While continuing to work two days a week...
Nurse of the Week Danielle Fenn Reached Out to Latin-American COVID Patients
Nurse of the Week Danielle Fenn understands the vital role of communication in nursing. Fenn, an RN at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, is originally from Brazil, and during the COVID crisis she used her knowledge of Portuguese to make the...
Nurse of the Week: VA Nurse Ben Busey is Always Ready to Serve in a Crisis
Nurse of the Week Ben Busey is no stranger to crises. In addition to working as an Urgent Care Nurse Manager at the Roseburg VA Medical Center in Oregon, Busey is also a part of the VA’s Disaster Emergency Medical Personnel System (DEMPS), which deployed him in Puerto...
Nurse of the Week: After Gaining Her LPN From a Homeless Shelter, Felicia Shaner Joins the Frontlines
As a single mother with a four-year-old daughter and another baby on the way, Felicia Shaner was already in a difficult position, but even after becoming homeless, this Nurse of the Week doggedly pursued her nursing studies. Now 26 years old, Felicia began her...
Nurse of the Week: Marc Perreault Comforts Isolated COVID-19 Patients With Music
Isolated from everyone but healthcare workers clad in PPE and denied the comfort of family visits, COVID-19 patients exist in a lonely world. Nurse of the Week Marc Perreault uses his musical gifts to try to bring a little intimacy and warmth into their lives. "You...
Nurse of the Week: One of Windy Smith’s Pediatric Patients is Her Own Daughter
Tending to anxious parents is a daily challenge of nursing in a pediatric hospital, but how do you cope when you’re the anxious parent and the patient is your own 8-year-old daughter? At American Family Children’s Hospital (AFCH) in Wisconsin, Nurse of the Week Windy...
Nurse of the Week: Logan Marx Has a Passion for Nursing and Community Service
Former Peace Corps volunteer and Nurse of the Week Logan Marx has “two passions and they don't intertwine very well, so I'm choosing to follow both of them." While he finishes his last semester at University of South Florida Nursing School and prepares to enter...
Nurse of the Week Nicole Smit Cares for the Underserved in Uganda
Nurse of the Week Nicole Smit has a favorite motto: “To make a difference in this world, you don’t have to be brilliant, rich or perfect, you just have to care.” Smit, a 28-year-old RN from New Zealand, has so far made three volunteer trips to Uganda to care for...
Nurse of the Week: Tabatha Kentner Stands in for Families of COVID-19 Patients
Owing to isolation measures during the pandemic, hospital patients are denied the solace of family visits during their illness and final hours. But, in the best tradition of bedside nurses, Nurse of the Week Tabatha Kentner and the other nurses on her ward do all they...
Nurse of the Week: Emily Fawcett Brings “Hope Huddles” to NYC’s Lenox Hill Hospital
For Nurse of the Week Emily Fawcett, working at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City during COVID-19 is the culmination of a series of nursing stints in stricken areas. She went to Puerto Rico in 2017 to help in the wake of Hurricane Maria, attended to patients on the...
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