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American Nurse, American Talent

April 11, 2009

A Registered Nurse since 1982, Steve Price began his healthcare career in the U.S. Navy in 1971 as a hospital corpsman. He spent 15 years in the dialysis…

Clinical experience, poetic expression

January 11, 2009

A registered nurse since 1982, Terry A. Hess has worked as an Adult Nurse Practitioner at the Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee for 14 years. He is…

From our readers…’Twas the night before…

December 11, 2010

‘Twas the middle of the semester, halfway through the course I was writing a paper and citing a source. The washer was loaded and the dryer was on,…

From our readers…The Companion

October 11, 2010

Parkinson’s had taken away almost everything she loved. She, the artist, had spent her younger days in the upper rooms of McGuffey painting watercolors of Piedmont’s rolling hills…

From our readers…The Dance

February 11, 2010

Linda Harrington, RNC, works in Labor and Delivery at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Hills, CA. Below she comments on her experience with writing this poem: When…

It’s YOU We Want to Celebrate!!

May 13, 2015

It’s YOU We Want To Celebrate

Poetic expression: Verse 2

November 11, 2007

In her second appearance on this page, nurse and poet Kristina Ibitayo presents three more poems.

Reflection

April 11, 2010

Hair, she mused looking at her reflection, What is it really? Just dead cells growing out of one’s head. Yet, she had spent countless hours caring for it,…

The joys of journaling and poetic expression

June 11, 2007

A journalist before becoming a nurse, Kristina Ibitayo has never abandoned her love for writing. Her poems celebrate true friendship and probe life’s possibilities.