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Spotlight on Brenda Muchelli, RN, BSN
By Matt Skoufalos Brenda Muchelli calls herself “a second-degree nurse.” Like many in the field, medicine wasn’t her first vocational choice – at least, not human medicine. Muchelli’s first degree was...
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Spotlight on Laura Faust, CNRA, and Dana Scarangelli, Surgical Technician
By Matt Skoufalos For the past two years, surgical technologist Veronica Marella of the Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center has been making headlines for her innovative use of what would...
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Spotlight On: Theresa Mottes, APRN, CPNP-AC, CDN
By Matt Skoufalos Critical Care Nephrology Nurse Practitioner Theresa Mottes has worked in the nursing field since she was 20 years old. In that time, she’s gone from a high school graduate to become a...
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Spotlight On Beth Devine, RN
By Matt Skoufalos When a 19-year-old Beth Devine completed the LPN program at Clark County Community College in southern Nevada, she entered the nursing field, “very young and naïve, and not exactly...
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Spotlight On Laura Cornelis, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC
By Matt Skoufalos When Laura Cornelis decided to pursue a career in health care, her life was at a crossroads. Newly divorced with two young children, she balanced parenting, work and her education....
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Spotlight on Danielle Glover, CST
By Matt Skoufalos After 22 years in the operating room, Danielle Glover can remember the moment she knew she was destined for the surgical suite. At age nine, while flipping through the channels, she...
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Spotlight On Pamela Davis, Assistant Head Nurse, Mount Sinai Health System
Pamela Davis will be the first to tell you she’s not a typical 61-year-old. An assistant head nurse at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, she’s at the point in her career where she knows “a lot of...
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Spotlight On: Tamara Kear, PhD, RN, CNS, CNN, FAAN, Executive Director,...
By Matt Skoufalos From the age of five, Tamara Kear knew she was going to be a nurse when she grew up. She can’t think of a time she’d considered any other profession. “When I got into high school, I...
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Spotlight On: Lori Wood
By Matt Skoufalos Among the various responsibilities she’s enjoyed in a 35-year nursing career, Lori Wood has held direct-care, education and management positions. But no matter what assignment she’s...
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Spotlight On: Darcy DiFede, RN, BSN, FAHA
By Matt Skoufalos Darcy DiFede found her niche in nursing. If there’s any nurse who most personifies the adage that nurses are the masters of their own fates, it’s Darcy DiFede. A late entrant to the...
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Spotlight On: Tom Catena
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,...
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Spotlight On: Lindsey Jones, RN, BSN, CPN, CHPPN
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...
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Spotlight On: Vangie Dennis, MSN, RN, CNOR, CMLSO
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...
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Spotlight On: Hannah Miller, RN, BSN
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...
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Spotlight On: Vivian Watson
By Matt Skoufalos 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...
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Spotlight On: Shelia Holleran
In March 2020, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf ordered a statewide, temporary freeze on all non-emergency surgeries in an effort to mitigate the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. At...
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Spotlight On: Rebecca Votino, BSN, RN, ONC, Director of Perioperative...
By Matt Skoufalos Rebecca Votino, in a scrub cap repping her Cleveland Indians, is the director of perioperative services at Magruder Hospital. Situated at the mouth of the Portage River on Lake Erie,...
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Spotlight On: Deborah Dunn, Graduate School Dean and Center for Research...
By Matt Skoufalos When Deborah Dunn first began to consider a career in nursing, the path many young professionals pursued involved getting an LPN certificate or job-specific associate degree. At the...
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Spotlight On: Lisa VanDeer, RN, CNOR
By Matt Skoufalos Anyone who’s ever understood the wisdom of “home is where the heart is” would be hard-pressed to find someone who’s lived the truth of that expression as fully as Lisa VanDeer, RN,...
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Spotlight On: Nechami Brilliant, BSN, RN, Nurse III/Perioperative Instructor,...
By Matt Skoufalos Nechami Brilliant has always put family before everything else in her life. A registered nurse and perioperative instructor, in the neuro/spine operating room at Johns Hopkins...
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