Minority Nurse

MARCH 3, 2025

My brother, also a veteran, never got the support he needed and lost his life to alcohol addiction. Your community, your brothers and sisters in arms, and a world of resources are waiting to support you every step of the way. For many veterans like me, the trauma and stress of service linger long after the uniform comes off.

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Today's Caregiver

JULY 2, 2025

Thirty years ago, on a rainy Fourth of July, my brother Gary drove a rental truck to a local magazine printer's warehouse to pick up copies of the first issue.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 14, 2025

She also cherishes her wide support network, which includes fellow student-athletes, nursing classmates, and her brother, Tommy, a member of Illinois State’s football team. Outside of scrubs and leotards, Donovan finds joy in the simple thingsprepping meals, painting, crocheting, and caring for her two cats.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

MAY 27, 2022

She also is very involved with her sister, brother, and brother in law. Her brother in law is a bishop. She has a wonderful son named Donyai. Donyai is married and she has 2 incredible grandchildren named Layla and Landon. Diane loves to go to concerts, plays and putting together puzzles. Visit Freedom Home Care.

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Elaine Mansfield

AUGUST 13, 2024

Anthony is his younger brother who used to dj in CA but now lives a few miles from me. Two brothers David, Jody, and a touch of Valium save me. Anthony getting ready to play “I want to hear Anthony play music, too,” I say to my son David who is visiting from North Carolina. Jody gathers my bags and “tucks” me in emotionally.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

MARCH 9, 2025

I discussed my decision with my brother (whos an unflappable CPA) and secured his support before I made my changes. I want to make sure I keep my health so Im committed to my healthy habits and securing them with a work-out buddy. I want to minimize my worries about my investments in the stock market so made some adjustments in my portfolio.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

DECEMBER 8, 2024

My brother, who didn’t help, thinks I’m the bad guy. I need to appointment an executor of my will for my disabled son. I asked a younger friend, who is hesitant. What can I do? I took care of our parents and am now taking a vacation. The post The Caregiving Stress first appeared on The Caregiving Years Training Academy.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2025

That level of flexibility and independence was a blessing when my brother was in hospice care. With siblings spanning New York, Michigan, and Canada, I can drop everything to be there for them when they need me without worrying if I’ll have a job when I return.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

JUNE 26, 2023

“It’s a blessing to be surrounded by the teammates and brothers that I have built relationships with,” he said. Keegan’s younger brother is going to be a freshmen at Olivet this fall, studying engineering. Keegan’s younger brother is going to be a freshmen at Olivet this fall, studying engineering.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JANUARY 2, 2025

Bells, as the story goes, is Santa Clauss jolly brother, who makes his special appearance on New Years Eve. For three generations, my family has embraced the whimsical tradition of Bells Nicholas.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 6, 2025

In high school, I helped care for my brother after he sustained third-degree burns on his hands, he shares. Through cleaning wounds, managing pain, and cheering his brother on day after day, Carney realized that healing wasnt just physicalit was deeply human. That powerful early lesson set him on the path to nursing.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Murphy’s relentless drive for excellence is evident in her competitive spirit, which her two older brothers instilled in her from a young age. Her incredible achievements and relentless pursuit of challenges inspire her colleagues and women aspiring to make a difference in their respective fields.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 17, 2022

Finally, they understand that when you have three brothers and the time comes for a fresh spring hair cut, barbershops are for girls too. And even though the boys like to joke she ended up with a “Karen” cut (brothers…), she hopped down with a smile on her face ready to take on spring full force. It’s 2022 after all.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

JULY 25, 2023

Abby has a younger brother who is attending school in Missouri and a younger sister who lives in Texas. ” Personal Life In 2021, Abby moved to Park Ridge, Illinois from Springfield, Missouri. She lives with her girlfriend, Lizzie, their two cats, Cornelius (Corn) and Zelda Mae, and a multitude of house plants.

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High Peaks Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Nick George, the Executive Director of High Peaks Hospice shares, “High Peaks Hospice is blessed to have a long-term relationship with the brothers of the Knights of Columbus in Port Henry. Once again, we have been honored by their generosity. Donations like this help us to continue meeting the hospice needs of everyone in the community.”

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 28, 2023

I told Stacy about that and how my kids had reacted to their new little brother. She had given birth to her third child, Tyler, a year earlier. I’d had Tyler the year before, and he was my third [child],” West says. “I You’ve got this, girl,’ I told her. You can do this.’ We bonded over that, which helped her become more relaxed.”

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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The quality of care that he received and the education and care given to my brother and me were incredible. I had planned to serve 20 years but was honorably discharged because of an injury. Just as I was leaving the Navy, my dad began hospice services. It’s an honor to be able to give back. What inspired you to become a hospice nurse?

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Daily Nurse

MAY 17, 2023

Treat each patient as your mother, father, brother, sister, or loved one because they are someone’s loved one. If your gut is telling you it doesn’t seem right, it’s probably not. You should ALWAYS listen and ALWAYS advocate for your patient. Nominate a Nurse of the Week!

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Home Sweet Home In-Home Care

MAY 15, 2023

Yet one day, she looks at you and calls you by a different name – that of her husband or younger brother or father. If they believe you’re a brother or husband, for instance, call them by their first name instead of “Mom.” You have been caring for Mom since her diagnosis of dementia. Next, reinforce that you know who the person is.

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AJN Off the Charts

MAY 8, 2024

Co-hosted by Maryland’s R 3 : Resilient Nurses Initiative , this captivating reimaging and dramatic reading on Zoom of Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy features performances by acclaimed actors and a chorus of frontline nurses. “By

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The Bucket-List Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

One humorous story was about the long-running debate between him and his brother over which restaurant made the best biscuits and gravy. Harold Eversole is cared for by our home hospice program. He enjoys entertaining our team with interesting stories about his life. Harold loves Dairy Queen (DQ). Sally Iseral and Mr.

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Elaine Mansfield

AUGUST 15, 2023

Anthony’s friend Tony gets my award for most beautiful presentation and Shawn gets the award for best corn soup ever created. For other posts about sharing meals with my family, see Brotherly Bonds. For a post about handling hearing loss and getting a cochlear implant in 2019, see Relighting the Vital Fire.

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Elaine Mansfield

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

When my mom first visited the Missouri farm with my dad, she offended Grandma by bringing food for my brother and me. She made rice pudding or bread pudding, especially good for babies she thought, with sugar and a sprinkle of nutmeg. Hadn’t Grandma raised two sons? My mother disagreed.

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Elaine Mansfield

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Birth of Venus, Botticelli On February 18, my son David who lives in North Carolina sent a text to his brother and me. “Did Did you see the sky?” he asked, including a cell phone photo of the evening sky taken in his yard. “I I looked an hour ago,” I answered, “but the planets were hidden behind thick clouds.”

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The Nurse Break

JUNE 5, 2025

My gorgeous nephew just graced us with his arrival in March, and my brother is getting married to his amazing fiancée in May. Through twelve months of living well below our means and hardcore saving, I’ve just travelled Vietnam, Thailand, Egypt, and am back home in the UK for a few weeks.

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Elaine Mansfield

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

What’s over for you that used to feel easy? For other posts about spending time with David in North Carolina, see Honeybees and Humans: Our Sweet Interdependence. You might also enjoy Brotherly Bonds. The post Vulnerable in an Unbalanced World appeared first on Elaine Mansfield.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

At that age, she and her brother immigrated to the United States to live with her mother, stepfather, and sister. . “Personally I am committed to paying it forward and mentoring current and future nurses to realize their full potential.” But Petrovanie-Green never forgot the important lessons from her grandmother.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Your brother went into the family business. The aforementioned overbearing father or critical mother can be like stowaways on the jet of your career. When you contemplate your potential choices, do their voices echo in your head? You should have been a doctor. Why did you waste your time on nursing school? Why didn't you?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It’s about taking care of older adults in a way that accounts for what matters to them as individuals, as human beings, as mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and even children. It provides a conceptual framework and an all-encompassing mission-vision of what it is we’re doing out there.

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Hope Hospice

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Damage to certain parts of the brain may cause misidentification of people, like thinking a man is one’s brother instead of husband. But that may not be all that’s in play when a patient seems to not recognize a loved one or frequent visitor. Color and contrast decline.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

“My younger brother was sick and in and out of the hospital, and I spent lots of time in the hospital visiting,” she says. Merida, who works in solid organ transplant of the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix, says she has known nursing was the career path for her since she was a child.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

get a job in med/surg, earn an MSN, get a doctorate, work in the ICU), not every nurse is going to travel the same path as her nurse brothers and sisters. While we may sometimes want a prescription for what we need to do with our professional journey (e.g.: This can seem like both a blessing and a curse. Probably not; in fact, I hope not.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

MARCH 30, 2022

In addition to helping care for her brothers and sisters, Jennifer also worked as a babysitter for several years during middle and high school. Jennifer has always had a passion for caring for others, which she says started at a young age with being the oldest and having five younger siblings!

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 3, 2023

The nurse’s brother informed him that the state board of nursing (BON) sent a letter to his home stating that an investigation was initiated due to a complaint by the niece. Implications for your practice The nurse wanted to help his brother and niece during a difficult time, which is commendable.

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Diversity Nursing

JULY 7, 2021

Like many of our Annual DiversityNursing.com $5,000 Education Award Winners, Shelah Roanhorse , our 2021 Winner, initially wanted to be a Doctor, but after her brother Nate became sick with cancer, she witnessed the dedication and care the Nurses gave him. She saw how involved his Nurses were with his day-to-day care.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2022

And for the next 19 years, she kept him home in a hospital bed in a wheelchair in her dining room, along with the help of course of my brother or my mom and her brothers, my uncles and private duty nursing. And my, he, my, my grandmother Helen was a feisty lady and she said, well, I don’t think him home.

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Seasons Hospice

JANUARY 7, 2021

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.” Gratitude is a great contributor to joy as it gives us perspective on the blessings that we have in this life. ” – James 1:2.

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