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It wasn’t until after Pamela Moss graduated college with a psychology degree that she came to feel like that field might not be the best fit for her. “I just didn’t have the passion for it,” Moss said. “Psych has a lot of recidivism, where people just keep coming...

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...