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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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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By Matthew N. Skoufalos From the OR to the blacktop to the dojo mat, Marla Packer-Perdunn, MDS, RN, lives a life of movement, hard work and emotional honesty. The motorcycle and martial arts enthusiast got her first taste of caregiving at age 15, when she signed up to...
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