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Before she embarked on a 36-year career in nursing, Kathy Beydler was a teacher.

“I’ve said it a number of times throughout my career: physicians cure and nurses care,” Dawson said. “I was the one who tucked them in, who would dress their burns, who held them, who took care of them and, to me, that was what I was there to do.”

A registered nurse and perioperative instructor, in the neuro/spine operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, Maryland, Brilliant began her health care career as a doula.

Anyone who’s ever understood the wisdom of “home is where the heart is” would be hard-pressed to find someone who’s lived the truth of that expression as fully as Lisa VanDeer, RN, CNOR.

When Deborah Dunn first began to consider a career in nursing, the path many young professionals pursued involved getting an LPN certificate or job-specific associate degree.

By Matt Skoufalos Situated at the mouth of the Portage River on Lake Erie, Port Clinton, Ohio is a community defined by “the lake life,” said Rebecca Votino. Its population fluctuates seasonally, boosted by fivefold in the summer months, when vacationers flood the...