Your initial inspiration to enter the field of nursing was your experience during your daughter’s treatment. As you spend more time nursing, what other experiences or elements of your work continue to motivate you? I am motivated not only by my colleagues, because of their dedication to their patients, but I am also motivated by
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JOPLIN, MISSOURI In 2011, the town of Joplin, Missouri was devastated by an F5 tornado the strongest imaginable. The storm destroyed St. John’s/Mercy Hospital, and devastated the community. The need to keep hospitals strong was made abundantly clear as hospital workers from St. John’s/Mercy and nearby Freeman Hospital helped their community in the wake of
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MOORE, OKLAHOMA How does a hospital recover after a direct hit from an F5 tornado? Watch Part 2 of our When Disaster Strikes series, where we travel to Moore, Oklahoma to find out.
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Claire Panke is a neonatal nurse at Lenox Hill Hospital, part of North Shore-LIJ Health System. Watch how Claire and her colleagues care for some of the hospital’s most vulnerable patients, from birth to discharge. 1 2 3 4 5 6 More than 3.7 million babies are delivered in America’s hospitals every year.* A
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Hospital Heroes work hard year-round, especially over the holiday season. They save lives, deliver babies, and spend their holidays working to keep us healthy. For this and more, they deserve to be recognized. In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, we collected thank-you notes from our community to hospital workers across the country.
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When Rachel Watson and her husband David came down with flu-like symptoms, they feared the worst, and a quick trip to the urgent care clinic in their hometown of Dunnellon, Florida confirmed it. They had COVID-19. David recovered quickly, but Rachel continued to deteriorate. David and their kids worried about her labored breathing, and after nearly a
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Roy Anderson — who had just returned from a work trip in New Orleans — was admitted to the hospital after having difficulty breathing. He was suffering from a severe case of COVID-19 and was put on a ventilator for weeks. Hospital Heroes pulled him through to recovery. After weeks of being unable to speak
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Connie and her husband, Kyle, were on a trip in California when she suddenly became very swollen and ill. Being pregnant at the time, they returned to their home state of New Mexico and met with Connie’s doctor out of concern for not only her own health, but the health of her baby. Anxiety crept
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Cody Chandler was admitted to the UT Health Tyler emergency room for pneumonia in both lungs when he received another, unexpected diagnosis: acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). If left untreated, AML is usually lethal within months, according to Dr. Bob Droder, an oncologist at UT Health East Texas HOPE Cancer Center. The time to act was
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Nurse practitioner Iselyn Hamilton-Austin survived breast cancer and started a non-profit to provide mammograms for those in need. Her story is an inspiration to all. Joey Ferry, BSN, RN or Taofikii Gafar-Schaner, MSN, RN, came together on a mission to improve patient care and safety and created SafeSeizure. Dr. Tra’Chella Johnson Foy navigated remarkable
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