Nursing: a healthcare field focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities to attain optimal health and quality of life.
The year was 1965. It had been 26 years since the Spanish Civil War had ended, and Spain had been overtaken by a Nationalist dictatorship led by Francisco Franco, who inflicted famine, poverty, and conflict upon his people. In Francoist Spain, the whole country was “one wide prison,” according to Spanish historian Ramón Arnabat, and […]
Following graduation from high school, Nurse Molly Vural earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Kansas. It wasn’t until a couple years later, when she was 28 years old, that she decided to pursue an Associate’s Degree in Nursing from Austin Community College. Vural noted that she was fascinated by the […]
Before Daisy Award Recipient Pauline Guthrie became a nurse, she worked at a bank for several years. Though she had received a degree in business administration from QueensBorough Community College, it was only a matter of time before she would join the career path of her sisters, who were all nurses. A particularly impactful moment […]
When she was in high school, Allen High School Health Science and Medical Terminology Instructor Mary Fraisher picked up her mother after her midnight nursing shift in the emergency room. As Fraisher waited in the car, she observed the inner workings and conditions of hospital healthcare. “When I would sit down there, I would just […]
On April 7, 1975, the Khmer Rouge communist regime conquered the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. Their occupation aimed for Cambodia to become a classless society, instituting extreme communism and abolishing civil and political rights, money, private property and religion. Citizens were forced to farm in harsh conditions, and anyone deemed an “intellectual” was killed, […]
Courtney Ruef graduated from California Baptist University and works as an inpatient nurse on the Medical/Diabetes unit of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.
