A Day in the Life: RN (BSN, BC)
Name: Kay Campbell
Place of work: Kettering Medical Center
Job Title: RN (BSN, BC)
Hours worked: 7am - 7pm, 36 hrs p/week
How many yrs/months in profession: 10 years
Where you received your education: Sinclair Community College and Indiana Wesleyan University
What degree did you earn: Associate to BS in Nursing
How many yrs/months for your education: 5 years
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A Day in the Life: Physical Therapist
Name: Sarah Conover
Place of work: UVMC
Job Title: Physical Therapist
Hours worked: 20 hrs a week
How many yrs/months in profession: 22 1/2 years
Where you received your education: University of Evansville & University of Indianapolis
What degree did you earn: BS in PT and MHS
How many yrs/months for your education: 4 years + 2
A Typical Day: Desk work [...]
A Day in the Life: HIS Analyst
Name: Renee Schmitz
Place of work: UVMC
Job Title: HIS Analyst
Hours worked: 7:30 am – 4:00 pm
How many yrs/months in profession: 16 years
Where you received your education: Sinclair Community College
How many yrs/months for your education: 3 years
What was your inspiration: I wanted to do something with healthcare, but knew that nursing was [...]
The Road to Residency
By Jason Faber
The scrubs I’m wearing are hanging damp and heavy. My limp hand is starting to go numb from the squeeze my wife is placing upon it.
The obstetrician, her forehead drenched in sweat, yells for more light and to for my wife to push harder. The monitor starts to show [...]
Notes from a med student
By Jacqueline Collins
It’s 4:30 a.m. and already I’ve been up for half an hour, taken a shower and had my breakfast. Most people are still fast asleep, but as I have begun to learn these past few weeks, sleep is a luxury that those of us in medicine are rarely afforded.
Never having been one to [...]
Julia’s Nursing School Journal
By Julia Judge
For the past four years, I was told by my professors, clinical instructors, mentors, peers, family and friends that I would have no trouble finding a job.
The phrase spoken by many, “Nursing is a recession-proof field,” rings in my head as I remain unemployed. Five years ago, when I was a senior in [...]
The Emergency Room
RNs reminisce about early heart
surgeries
By Carole A. Judge, for What2Be
Procedures compared to today’s technology might appear to be primitive but they were effective. Improvisation and common sense were the orders of the day.
“They asked me if I would like to learn how to operate the heart-lung machine and I jumped at the chance,” Weinert [...]
