Category - Health

Nurses Week Spotlight: Paula Chambers

Paula Chambers is recipient of the 2016 Nursing Specialty Award. Chambers is the charge nurse in the urology practice site and treats patients with prostate cancer and...

Nurses Week Spotlight: Linda Wise

Linda Wise is a senior staff nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit. She’s part of a team who transports sick infants by helicopter, plane or ambulance from other hospitals to...

Nurses Week Spotlight: Paul Smith

Paul Smith is a senior staff nurse in the surgical intensive care unit, where he takes care of patients who have open-heart surgery and other surgical procedures that require...

Nurses Week Spotlight: Marcie Johnson

Marcie Johnson is a senior staff nurse in the post-anesthesia care unit and performs nursing assessments on patients who come from the operating room, manages their pain, assesses...

Nurses Week Spotlight: Samantha Hughes

Samantha Hughes is the charge nurse in the Children’s Hospital of Georgia’s emergency department. She helps to manage the nurses, EMTs and clerks on the pediatric side of the...

Nurses Week Spotlight: Catrina Crawford

Catrina Crawford is a senior staff nurse in the echo lab and performs stress tests to increase the heart’s workload and monitors for changes in the patient’s blood pressure and...

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