(PennLive) The Issue: National Nurses Week was last week.
Our Opinion: The community should take a moment to salute its nurses, who are an integral part of health care both in and outside of hospitals.
We would have to look long and hard to find someone in Berks County who has not been cared for by a nurse, a nurse practitioner or a licensed practical nurse at some point in life. [Read more...]
(USA Today) Veteran nurse Cordella Thorney works with Rebecca Madore at Wuesthoff Hospital in Rockledge, Fla., on May 1.In 50 years, she has seen her profession redefine itself to meet the challenges of change, yet continue to struggle with shortages of new practitioners.
Yacoub, 72, who has worked at Cape Canaveral Hospital here for 36 years, is decades older than the 46-year-old average age of employed registered nurses. Some veteran nurses continue to work, but many more have hung up the scrubs for good or are counting the days until retirement. [Read more...]
(Hispanic Business) Josh Halon inadvertently went into nursing as a career.
The northwest Indiana native and current registered nurse and director of cardiovascular services for Indiana University Health West Hospital was working a retail job to pay his way through college at Indiana State University. Then 9/11 happened and the subsequent economic downtown resulted in Halon losing his job. The only employment he could find after that was working with disabled children. [Read more...]
(Democrat and Chronicle) As National Nurses Week is upon us, a Greece native and longtime nurse said entering the field is one of the most rewarding experiences she’s had.
“Just knowing that your plan for your patient worked out in the best outcome for them is rewarding,” said Renee DeRider, a nurse at the Mary M. Gooley Hemophilia Center.
“Knowing that you’re passionate about the medical field you have chosen and applying that to your patient by assisting and empowering them in their health care, whether that’s on a daily on-going basis, or yearly encounters with them.” [Read more...]
(TurnTo10.com) Renee Cacchiotti and Amy Stroup are nurses on the same floor at Rhode Island Hospital, but they’re in different units.
Besides being nurses, they have something else in common. Both have mothers who are also nurses at the hospital, and both come from a line of nurses.
Cacchiotti’s mom, Cathy Duquette is a nurse, and so was her mom. [Read more...]
(YourWestUnews.com) Louise Thomas Cooley exchanged a nursing career to raise a family after marrying legendary heart surgeon Denton Cooley in 1949. But Louise’s nursing skills stayed solid, and carried her through life.
“Nurses must be organized, prepared, and always ready to handle the unexpected,” Louise said. “I raised five daughters, so those skills came in handy.”
“‘Nursing – it’s training for life!’ is our mother’s mantra,” said daughter Susan Cooley. “My mother drilled that into her daughters. We learned it, we lived it, we embraced it.” [Read more...]
(Huffington Post) Throughout my career as a registered nurse, I have had no greater privilege than to provide healthcare to those who have bravely served our country. As a former chief psychiatric nurse at the VA Medical Center in Dallas, I know first-hand the resources that are needed to care for those coming home from war. I firmly believe it is our duty as a Nation to provide the best care possible to our veterans.
Unfortunately, healthcare in America has become a luxury that millions of Americans, including veterans, simply cannot afford or access. The United States holds its rank at 18th worldwide in deaths due to the lack of servicing patients with preventable conditions. As healthcare costs continue to spiral out of control, most Americans would agree that our healthcare needs improvement. [Read more...]
(MSNBC) Captain Bruce Kevin Clark, an Army nurse who died while on Skype with his wife, did not die of a bullet wound, U.S. military officials said. Investigators say Clark apparently died of natural causes.
“We can positively say that Captain Clark was not shot,”Chris Grey, a spokesperson for U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, said in a statement. “We do not suspect foul play in the death of Captain Clark at this point in our ongoing investigation.” [Read more...]
(YumaSun.com) Griselda Brown started as a social worker in a nursing home in Yuma. She really enjoyed the interaction with patients, but she found that when a patient had something simple like a headache or gash on the arm, she couldn’t help them.
So Brown became a nurse, which allowed her to bridge the gap and directly care for patients. She has been a nurse for nine years and currently is a palliative care staff nurse in the intensive care unit at Yuma Regional Medical Center. [Read more...]
In 1993, I was a bright-eyed 17-year pup in the midst of my senior year at Permian High School. A little rebellious, but prone to always do the right thing, I engaged the notion my career path would lead straight to the military out of high school. Opting to pursue the Navy’s Delayed Enlistment Program, my future was set in motion…but not as I would come to expect it. Prior to high school graduation in May of 1994, I had scored well on my Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) but failed the last component of my medical screening physical. Apparently the Navy did not take healthy 18-year-olds with inguinal hernias. I was informed my hernia would need to be surgically repaired before being allowed to serve in the military. Little did I know, at the time, this would set my career path for years to come. [Read more...]
