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...
Nurse of the Week: Frank Baez Balances Dual Role as NYU Custodian and College of Nursing Student
Our Nurse of the Week is Frank Baez, a 2019 graduate of the New York University (NYU) Rory Meyers College of Nursing who moved to the US from the Dominican Republic before working as a custodian at NYU, and eventually studying at, and graduating from, NYU...
Nurse of the Week: Nursing Professor Yolanda Nelson Creates System to Keep Black Nursing Students in School
Our Nurse of the Week is Yolanda Nelson, an alumna and nursing professor at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) who created a proven system to keep black nursing students in school. Her program Moving Forward Together was launched as a mentorship program to help black...
Nurse of the Week: NICU Nurse Tara Fankhauser Crochets Halloween Costumes for Hospital’s Tiniest Patients
Our Nurse of the Week is Tara Fankhauser, a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurse at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta who crochets Halloween costumes for the NICU babies in her care. This is the fourth year in a row that she’s spent months crocheting costumes for...
Nurse of the Week: School Nurse Annie Dyke Helps Save Student After His Heart Stops
Our Nurse of the Week is Annie Dyke, a school nurse at Madison County Central School who helped save an eighth-grade boy after his heart stopped during gym class. M.J. Crumity was in the middle of a game of dodgeball in gym class when his pacemaker quit working....
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