Music and Compassion: Interpersonal skills achieve success “What makes you a nurse is being able to talk to a patient, look at a patient, listen to a patient, and figure out what’s going on with that patient. There have been many times we have picked up on things that...
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Full Circle – Pediatric Technition Works With Doctor Who Treated Him as a Teen
by Matthew Skoufalos | Mar 1, 2016
The first time neurosurgeon Andrew Reisner met Javaris “Terrell” Singleton, Singleton was a 16-year-old emergency-room patient at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Emory. A CT scan revealed a significant tumor that had caused hydrocephalus (a medical condition in...
READ MOREIn the Spotlight – Getting in the Door
by Matthew Skoufalos | Jan 1, 2016
by Matt Skoufalos “You have a better chance of being me than you do of being Ben Carson,” said Edward McKay. “To be a neurosurgeon, you have a better chance of being me than him.” But when you’re McKay, a surgical technician in the pediatric OR at Johns Hopkins...
READ MOREMaking the Switch: Ex-teacher Finds the Perfect RX for Career Success
by Matthew Skoufalos | Dec 1, 2015
By Matthew Skoufalos For Ohio native Danielle Hostler, nursing is a second career. When she and her husband moved from the Buckeye State to North Charleston, South Carolina, he was taking a firefighter job at Boeing, and she was working as a seventh-grade English...
READ MORESpotlight On: Renee Pink
by Matthew Skoufalos | Nov 1, 2015
By Matt Skoufalos Renee Pink’s career in health care began with a turn in the U.S. Army back in 1988. Stationed in Germany, Pink became a surgical technician, and liked it so much she took up the career in civilian life, too. After she returned to the United States,...
READ MOREFormer Tree Climber Reaches New Heights As a Nurse
by Matthew Skoufalos | Oct 1, 2015
By Matt Skoufalos Ask most nurses what got them into the profession, and “the tree-climbing business” is not usually a response you’ll hear. But for a decade before John Steinmacher was at his patients’ bedsides, he was swinging from branches in homeowners’ backyards,...
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