Nurse of the Week: Wheelchair-Bound Disability Advocate Andrea Dalzell Receives $1 Million Award on GMA
Nurse of the Week Andrea Dalzell was just 5 years old when she was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a neurological disorder caused by inflammation in the spinal cord. Before long, she needed a wheelchair to get around, but that simply meant she would move forward...
Nurse of the Week Heidi Gould Donates Stem Cells to Blood Cancer Patient
Every nine minutes, a life is lost to blood cancer, so Nurse of the Week Heidi Gould didn’t take it lightly when she received a request for another special blood donation. Gould was busy treating COVID patients in the ICU at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield,...
Nurse of the Week Stephanie Walker on Living with MBC: “Don’t Put Your Head in the Sand”
Nurse of the Week Stephanie Walker had been a registered nurse for almost 40 years when she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) in 2015. After working in pediatric intensive care, she had spent the last 15 years as a hospice nurse. Her MBC was...
Nurse of the Week Pamela Zeinoun Carried 3 Premature Babies to Safety After Beirut Blast
Nurse of the Week Pamela Zeinoun was on the fourth floor of Beirut’s Saint George Hospital University Medical Center during the deadly August 4 explosions. As the blasts tore into the hospital and shook the entire building, the 26-year-old nurse was thrown into the...
Nurse of the Week Cathy Scholtens Wins Two Awards for Nursing and Community Service
Nurse of the Week Cathy Scholtens is known as a nurse who will go the extra mile for her neighbors and her pediatric patients… So well-known in fact, that the Missoula, Montana pediatric ICU nurse received two awards in one month! First, Cathy’s hospital, Community...
Nurse of the Week Ashleigh Lugar Provides Seniors with Full-Service Treatment
Nurse of the Week Ashleigh Lugar, a nurse in Waco, Texas, extended her nursing repertoire by spending a day as a hairdresser for 36 of her locked-down patients at the Heartis Senior Living Center. As Director of Health Services at the Center, Lugar felt a deep...
Nurse of the Week Loretta Kent Removes Old Tattoos to Help Parolees and Abused Women Make Fresh Start
When South Texans have tattoos that are holding them back, they seek out Nurse of the Week Loretta Kent. After nearly 30 years as an ER nurse, the 72-year-old Texan founded a non-profit tattoo removal clinic to help parolees, abused women, former gang members, and...
Nurse of the Week NP/Prosecutor Renee White Volunteered in COVID Field Hospitals
No one can accuse Nurse of the Week Renee Wascovich White of “sitting back and taking it easy.” At the height of the New Jersey coronavirus outbreak, the family and psychiatric NP and mother of four worked as a nurse at a COVID field hospital. In her full-time...
Nurse of the Week: Lisa Lane Supported Lonely Patient Through COVID Ordeal
Ohio printer Walter Ruiz could not quite recognize her features under all of her PPE, but the voice of Nurse of the Week Lisa Lane quickly became familiar to him during his struggle with COVID-19. Hospitalized with COVID after passing out at his business, Ruiz was...
Nurse of the Week: Carolyn Storck Worked Frontlines on a Crutch
Even while she was recuperating from leg surgery, Nurse of the Week Carolyn Storck couldn't stay home during a pandemic. Storck, a former military Major in the Navy Nurse Corps and the wife of an active duty Marine, isn’t accustomed to being consigned to the...
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