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Spotlight On: Summer Bryant, DNP, RN, CENP, CMSRN
Senior Managing Consultant, Berkeley Research Group, Healthcare Performance Improvement By Matt Skoufalos When Summer Bryant, DNP, RN, CENP, CMSRN, was a high-school student growing up outside of...
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Spotlight On: Katie Chargualaf, Ph.D., RN, CMSRN
By Matt Skoufalos As early as middle school, Katie Chargualaf found herself contemplating a career in health care. Growing up in a family of health care providers, where health care was commonly talked...
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Spotlight On: Terry Jones, Ph. D. RN
By Matt Skoufalos For a seasoned nurse educator with several advanced degrees, Terry Jones doesn’t seem to remember the exact moment when she decided to pursue a career in nursing. “It always seemed...
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Spotlight On: Robert Miller
By Matt Skoufalos Patients served at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, a 586-bed Level I trauma center with 36 operating rooms and four GI procedure rooms, rely...
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Spotlight On: Angie Jenkins, MSN-L, RN, NE- BC
By Matt Skoufalos As the vice president of operations for surgical services at the Phoenix, Arizona-based St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Angie Jenkins leverages the expertise and...
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Spotlight On: Victoria Buhrman, RN, BSN, CMSRN
By Matt Skoufalos Upon graduating high school, Victoria Buhrman remembers being “dead-set” on a career in physical therapy. She spent a year of her undergraduate pursuing the degree in athletic...
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Spotlight On: Joann Coleman, DNP, ACNP-BC, AOCN, GCN
By Matt Skoufalos Although JoAnn Coleman has dedicated the majority of her professional life to caring for surgical patients, she’d originally planned to enter the workforce as a secondary school...
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Spotlight On: Charles ‘Wes’ Foster, MSN, RN, CMSRN, OCN Emeritus Director,...
By Matt Skoufalos Growing up in Hightstown, New Jersey, Wes Foster was surrounded by nurses, including his mother, grandmother and godmother. “In my family, you’re either a nurse or you become a cook,...
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Spotlight On: Jane Flowers, MSN, RN, CNOR e, CRCST
By Matt Skoufalos Asked how she got the idea to enter a career in nursing, Jane Flowers said she came by it naturally. “It seemed like something that would be good for me,” Flowers said. “It was a good...
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Spotlight On: Natasha Granado, RN, BSN
“As a little kid, I always loved playing with my dolls and making them better, making them healthy,” recalled Natasha Granado. “I asked my mom about that, too. She said, ‘You’ve always had a big...
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Spotlight On: Tony Thurmond, CRCST, CIS, CHL, FCS
By Matt Skoufalos Growing up in Adairville, Kentucky, a small town of about 1,200 people on the Tennessee state line, Tony Thurmond knew that if he wanted to see the world, he’d have to first escape...
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Spotlight On: Cryssie Tino, MSN, RN, CNOR, CSSM
Cryssie Tino, MSN, RN, CNOR, CSSMDirector Perioperative Services, The Jewish Hospital By Matt Skoufalos Growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cryssie Tino describes herself as a tomboy — which is another way...
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Spotlight On: John W. Cromwell, MD
By Matt Skoufalos John W. Cromwell, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer and Director of Surgical Quality & Safety University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics John W. Cromwell’s interest in the...
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Spotlight On: Meg Coley, RN, MSN, Vice President for Surgical Services...
By Matt Skoufalos After three decades in nursing care, Meg Coley has leveraged her educational aptitude and extensive field experience into a leadership position as the vice president for surgical...
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Spotlight On: Vangie Dennis, MSN, RN, CNOR, CMLSO
Assistant Vice President of Perioperative Services, AnMed of Anderson, South Carolina By Matt Skoufalos Vangie Dennis’ earliest memories of hospital nurses stem back to her days as a high-schooler. She...
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Spotlight On: Amber Eaglin, MSN, RN
Throughout her childhood, Amber Eaglin loved animals so much that she’d planned to pursue a career in veterinary medicine. Unfortunately for those dreams, during her first internship at a local zoo,...
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Spotlight On: Gina Garozzo-Jones, CRCST, CHL, CER
By Matt Skoufalos Health care was always a part of family conversations throughout her childhood, Gina Garozzo-Jones said. Her Sicilian immigrant grandmother only had been allowed to attend school up...
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Edith Dee Hall | 1897-1971
Remembering Nursing Pioneer, AORN Founder By Jim Orr Western Nebraska Observer Edith Dee Hall’s gravestone at Kimball Cemetery is inscribed, simply, with 1897-1971. What’s important, though, is not the...
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Spotlight On: Natalie B. Jones DHA, MBA, BHA, BSN, RN, CNOR
Director of Perioperative Services/Healthcare Administrator at NBJ Healthcare Consulting and Management Company in Coconut Creek, Florida By Matt Skoufalos From her early days volunteering as a...
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Spotlight On: Kelvin Johnson, CVIS
Hybrid OR Vascular/CT, EP lab, Cardiac Cath lab Services, Duke University Health Systems By Matt Skoufalos Growing up on a farm in Halifax County, North Carolina, Kelvin Johnson learned all about hard...
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