by Matt Skoufalos U.S. Navy experience helps Todd Larson become director of education, research and development for robotic surgery vendor Mimic Technologies in Seattle, Wash. If there were ever an example of the ways in which the nursing field provides healthcare...
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In the Spotlight: Caring for Others at Heart of Nurse’s Job
by Matthew Skoufalos | Oct 1, 2013
by Matthew N. Skoufalos When Sandy Brickel was a teenager, her mother, a police dispatcher, was seriously injured in the line of duty. When that happened, many things changed for the Ft. Wayne, Ind. native, one of them being that Brickel began to seriously consider a...
READ MORESpotlight: April Williams, RN, BSN
by Matthew Skoufalos | Sep 1, 2013
Williams has been to Asia, the Caribbean, and Central America many times, and she helps coordinate medical mission work for other nurses who want to go there as well. But the most rewarding of her missions has been those spent in Haiti. For a minute, there was a...
READ MORESpotlight On: Stephen Sladek
by Matthew Skoufalos | Aug 1, 2013
by Matthew  N. Skoufalos April 15, 2013 was not a normal day in the city of Boston. It was Patriot’s Day, a local holiday commemorating the Revolutionary War battles of Lexington and Concord, which also coincides with the annual running of the Boston Marathon....
READ MORESpotlight On: Robin Morgan and Jill Wilson
by Matthew Skoufalos | Jul 1, 2013
A working friendship, in and out of the OR by Matthew N. Skoufalos Surgical technicians Robin Morgan and Jill Wilson have a lot in common. The two friends met at Griffin Technical College in Griffin, Ga., where they each earned certification 12 years ago. They got...
READ MORESpotlight On: Linda Groah
by Matthew Skoufalos | Jun 1, 2013
by Matthew N. Skoufalos “When I was developing my choice of careers, there weren’t a lot of choices for women,” says AORN Executive Director and CEO Linda Groah. They boiled down to “be a teacher, be a nurse, be a secretary,” she says. Instead of regarding those...
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