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By Matthew N. Skouflos Years ago, you didn’t hear the term “nurse navigator” or “case management,” said Mike Newell, MSN. Nurses were people who came in and took your pulse and administered medication. Case management was lingo used by lawyers and detectives, and the...

By Matthew N.  Skoufalos Looking back on it, Beth Cohen remembers that she entered the field of nursing “kind of by accident.” Having already been accepted to law school, Cohen started to have second thoughts, which were only amplified as her grandparents on both...

By Matthew N. Skoufalos Board-certified family nurse practitioner Cliff Fawcett, MED, MSN, took a long time to get right back to where he started: his alma mater of Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio. Fawcett’s father (and namesake) taught business management...

By Matthew N. Skoufalos Teresa Jersild, RN, BSN, CNOR, believes that every OR nurse enters the field “because they want to do the right thing for their patients.” “I went into nursing because I like to help people,” she said. “I like to make them feel comfortable. I...

By Matthew N.  Skoufalos “There’s still no substitute for a sterile working environment and a surgical conscience” – Cindy Mask, CST, FAST, AA, BAAS In 1983, when certified surgical technologist Cindy Mask began working in the operating room, every patient that...

The Good Nurse: Childhood experience inspires Ileana Breaux to make a positive impact on patients By Matt Skoufalos Nurses choose the profession for various reasons. To some, it’s a calling; to others, the pursuit of a family tradition. There are those, however, who...