Nursing
March 05, 2024
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Critical Care Nursing to Health Science Education: Mary Fraisher, R.N., B.S.N.

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 […]

Nursing
October 12, 2023
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Cambodian Genocide Refugee Turned Cardiac Nurse: Phalary Huy, R.N., B.S.N.

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, […]