At the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (UPMC) in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, OR Clinician Manager Shelia Holleran and the crew in her surgical unit found their normal routines put on the shelf for a month-and-a-half.
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Spotlight On: Vivian Watson
by OR Today Magazine | Jul 31, 2020
When Vivian Watson graduated nursing school in 1957, life had already prepared her for the unpredictable pace of the health care field. Born to a family of Mississippi sharecroppers in 1935, Watson entered into a difficult upbringing made harder by a cleft lip and palate.
READ MORESpotlight On: Hannah Miller, RN, BSN
by OR Today Magazine | Jul 1, 2020
By Matt Skoufalos When Hannah Miller began studying for a career in health care at the University of California-Santa Cruz, she didn’t anticipate that career would be nursing. Miller, who’s about two years into her professional life as a staff and charge nurse at Good...
READ MORESpotlight On: Vangie Dennis, MSN, RN, CNOR, CMLSO
by OR Today Magazine | May 31, 2020
By Matt Skoufalos After more than 40 years in the field of nursing, Vangie Dennis has earned an armful of educational achievements: she’s a registered, master’s degreed nurse, a certified perioperative nurse, and a certified medical laser safety officer. Dennis puts...
READ MORESpotlight On: Lindsey Jones, RN, BSN, CPN, CHPPN
by OR Today Magazine | Apr 30, 2020
By Matt Skoufalos At six, Lindsey Jones’ son, Tyler, started coming home from school with bruises. Jones, a preschool teacher, decided to follow up with her family pediatrician. Not long after, they were referred to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St....
READ MORESpotlight On: Tom Catena
by OR Today Magazine | Apr 1, 2020
Tom Catena has dedicated the last 20 years of his life working as a medical missionary in Africa. Nine of them he spent amid almost ceaseless civil conflict in war-torn Sudan, and for almost all 20, he’s lacked the resources and infrastructure that most Western...
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