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When Edward Messina, MSN, CRNP, was 15, there were no such things as “extreme” sports. The Pennsylvania native traces his interest in hang-gliding to a group of neighborhood friends who learned the practice from an amateur-flying instructor they met through word of...

Empowering individuals, inspiring teamwork As the Director of Ambulatory Nursing at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pa., Cheryl Clancy sees her role as a vital link in the continuity of care from providers at offsite clinics in the system to...

Brooklyn-born rose Cceberio remembers, in grisly detail, the moment when she knew she would become a nurse. She was 15 years old. Her younger sister was playing on a rope swing in the backyard of the family home, which was situated at the top of a sandy hill by a...

For 10 years, Sara Kucharski, RN, BSN, has been helping at-risk mothers deliver healthier babies. Even more impressive, she’s spent much of that time doing such work in Camden, N.J., an impoverished city that’s frequently labeled among the most dangerous in America....

Traveling Scrub Tech: for Jody Still, a 15-year career in health care all began with M.A.S.H. The RNST System Administrator for Surgical Information Systems at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville, Ind., he grew up watching the antics of Hawkeye Pierce with his...

A native Floridian, Roxanne Tweedy hails from Jacksonville and attended nursing school in Miami, seeking to follow in the footsteps of her mother. She wanted very much to join the Navy after graduation, but met “a very nice Air Force officer” and got married instead....