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By Matthew N. Skoufalos   After 35 years in the OR, 58-year-old Mary Hamlin, CST/CSFA at McLeod Health in Florence, S.C., has a long view of what it takes to be successful in the nursing profession. At minimum, she says, is a commitment to understanding the needs...

By Matthew N. Skoufalos Stefanie LeGrande, MSN, RN is a Clinical Nurse Educator at the Kramer School of Nursing in Oklahoma City, Okla. For 10 years, LeGrande worked as a veterinary technician. She entered the field with an associate’s degree in applied sciences, and...

For the past 28 years, Janice Casper has been running. It started in Korea, where she and her older brother were Army brats. To engage the 10-year-old girl, a running coach challenged Janice to beat her brother’s mile time. When she clocked a 6:19, he invited...

For Dawn Costanzo, RN, co-owning a home health care agency isn’t her first line of work. It isn’t even her second or her third. When the enterprising ohio native and her business partner took over the Charleston, S.C.-based Interim Healthcare, she’d already had a...

“I know that there were a lot of things that I wanted to do but didn’t seem possible for me in 1966.” Even as a teenager, Andrade sought to reconcile her healing and spiritual impulses in a professional context, considering the seclusion of a convent after high...