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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....

Robert Malone just wants everybody to get along. Malone is the assistant nurse manager for the Surgical Service Department of Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia, Calif., a 581-bed hospital that handles about 8,800 surgical cases a year. Like many nurses, he has...

Jennifer Olin, BSN, RN, has never been able to stay away from the media. In fact, after graduating college with a dual degree in journalism and English, she headed off to a small town in Texas to work on a small-town newspaper. The dream lasted about a year. “It was...

NURSE VS. WILD By: Lanier Norville Paul Lamb, RN, loves the Big Sky Country. Born in Missoula, Mont., Lamb grew up hiking, fishing, biking and skiing. He attended high school and college in California, but he was eager to move back to his homeland. The big Sky Country...