RN Barbara Stanley Volunteers to Assist in Hawaii Wildfire Recovery
The devastation caused by the Lahaina wildfires on Maui has wiped away a historic tourist town, broken homes, taken lives taken, and people like Barbara Stanley are springing into action to do their part to help in the recovery efforts. Stanley, a registered nurse and...
Dr. Dorothy Miller Watches Daughter Graduate from Nursing Program She Created
As a once impoverished teen mom in rural North Carolina, Dr. Dorothy Miller watched with great pride as her eldest daughter graduated 13 years to the day she received her nursing degree from a nursing program she created at St. Andrews University in Laurinburg, North...
Nurse Manager Lisa Schneidenbach Dresses Up in Costumes to Lift Patients’ Spirits
Nurses are known for their acts of kindness, but Lisa Schneidenbach does it with incredible character. She dresses up as many different characters – all in the name of lifting patients’ spirits. Schneidenbach, an assistant nurse manager with John Theurer Cancer Center...
Jessica Borden Finds New Calling After Brother’s Death and Gift of Life to Others
After losing her brother and witnessing the gift of life he gave to others through organ donation, Jessica Borden, RN, BSN, found a new calling to help others in their time of need. The loss of her brother changed her life forever, and now Borden is a heart transplant...
Nurse Who Had Cancer Becomes Nurse Navigator to Help Others in Need
Helping others is what nurse navigator Megan Trewhitt does for a living at the CHI MaryEllen Locher Breast Center in Chattanooga, Tennesse. But sometimes, the person doing the comforting needs comfort. After Trewhitt and her husband moved to Chattanooga in 2017, she...
Rhonda Trotter Fulfills Dream of Becoming a Nurse – 35 Years Later
Rhonda Trotter dreamed of becoming a nurse after high school, but her mother told her there were too many nurses, so she decided to go into computer science, taking a job at the United States Postal Service. She eventually went back to school to get her nursing...
Nurse Mary Ann West Helped Deliver Son’s Wife 22 Years Ago
Nurse Mary Ann West didn’t know it then, but in June 2001, she would help deliver her future daughter-in-law. West, a labor and delivery nurse at Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful, Utah, was the first to welcome Kelsey into the world, weighing in at 6 lbs. 6 oz. Then,...
RN Courtney Miller Works in Utah Hospital That Saved Her Life
Courtney Miller, an Ortho/Neuro OR Manager with Intermountain Health, saves lives at the same hospital that once saved hers. “I knew as a kid I wanted to do something in the medical field,” says Miller In July 2007, at just 16 years old, Miller was diagnosed with a...
Nurse Practitioner Payal Emery Uses Art to Help Others
Milford, Connecticut, nurse practitioner Payal Emery has been using art as an outlet to cope with many different moments in life. Because of her experiences, she now wants to use art to help others After noticing how much art helped her and her autistic son — and...
RN Julie Thompson Helps Little Boy Overcome Fear and Anxiety Before Surgery
Julie Thompson, a nurse at Van Diest Medical Center (VDMC) in Webster City, Iowa, helped a little boy overcome his fear and anxiety before surgery and was named the 2023 recipient of the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Daily Nurse is proud to honor Thompson as...
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