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Working for your dreams
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As a child, Ronaldo Verian would see an airplane pass in the sky from his home in the Philippines and imagine himself on board. Nursing brought that dream—and so many others—to life for him.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/e8CQibzx97U
4/27/2022
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You'll never regret it
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Encouraged by his mom to pursue nursing, Quinn Lacey is now eternally grateful to be part of something that contributes so significantly to the welfare of humanity—training the next generation of nurses.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/jCH2H4i32ak
2/28/2022
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Quinn Lacey, PhD, RN, CCRN
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Hope to give
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It’s not always about what happens to you, it’s how you overcome it. Crohn's disease has tried to break Rachael Stein down many times, but with the help of other nurses along the way, she refuses to let it stop her.
https://youtu.be/E1-BEzN5c1M
1/19/2022
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The person behind that number
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Mercy Mumba's research focus is on substance use disorders, but it is more than percentages and figures to her.
https://youtu.be/4yAaLln5GUU
1/6/2022
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Drawn to help
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When Faith Adole first started in nursing, she didn’t realize that she could have such an impact on global health. But that all changed in 2011 after her first mission trip to Nigeria—she was inspired to create an organization to do more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-GNedfVqFI
12/13/2021
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Championing for cleaner cookstoves
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Nearly 40% of the world's population cooks on primitive cookstoves, exposing billions of people to dangerous household air pollution. Lisa Thompson's research is putting cleaner stoves in homes, drastically impacting lives.
https://youtu.be/7tLC-ls-D0A
12/1/2021
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Shining the light
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Briana Snyder works with patients who have survived severe abuse in childhood. Despite all of the hardship they’ve been through, she is inspired by how hard her patients work to get well and is honored to be a part of their journey.
https://youtu.be/N_7VOsWyc6U
11/15/2021
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A biennium like no other
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It wasn't the biennium he expected, but reflecting on his two years serving as Sigma's president, Ric Ricciardi remarks on the honor he feels to serve and looks to a bright future with Sigma members in the lead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMhRYCXYivU
11/4/2021
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In times of disaster
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A patient brought a bomb into the ER one traumatic day, and it changed Caren Herring's career path. "On call" now takes on a whole different meaning as part of the Virginia-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT).
https://youtu.be/R514yIbD7mE
9/24/2021
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Countering the odds
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Motivated by the premature death of four of her cousins, Kisha Thompson, MS, CRNA, received a Sigma small research grant from the Sigma Foundation for Nursing for her study "Reflections and Resilience Influences that Support Survival in Young Black Men."
https://www.youtube.com/embed/lvAzQceayd8
9/16/2021
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Her “Homage to New York”
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Cathy Peters created a collage to remember September 11, and it is now a permanent piece of history.
https://youtu.be/dMv3zH4h6sY
9/10/2021
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All in
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During Jamil Norman’s first years of nursing school, she only had one African American professor, even though she attended a historically Black college. She's now a change agent to help her students.
https://youtu.be/fN0I0ycJqkQ
8/13/2021
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Returning to the heat of the battle
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It's no surprise that as the first registered nurse to serve on UNC REX's board, Melissa Fitzpatrick's immediate response to vaccination discussions for hospital staff was "I can help!"
https://youtu.be/vEgY_yjwPhw
6/8/2021
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Bringing research home
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Jerry John Nutor is a nurse researcher from Ghana who has created a platform to share the abundance of studies done in Sub-Saharan Africa.
https://youtu.be/si71V25e11c
3/30/2021
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Dimensions of a healthy workplace
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Recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine, Sigma members Anne Marie Rafferty and Christopher Friese share their healthy work environment research and recommendations.
https://youtu.be/xxJ_-9PAadM
2/24/2021
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Creating a new approach
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When the pandemic began in Canada, Sarabeth Silver was tasked with simulating a protected code blue and educating staff on each of the different roles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmre6gEhzCg
2/8/2021
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No disease can take this career away from me
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Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis put April Braker in a coma for six months and threatened her lifelong dream of being a nurse. She fought back. And won.
https://youtu.be/W8P9CWj98qQ
8/19/2020
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The power of service, multipled
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Strength in numbers brings hope and comfort to children in crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/cJHqmITuy7I
2/7/2020
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A return to nursing
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When life gave him another opportunity, Aric jumped at his chance to become a second-career nurse.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/z-DZrjLaROE
1/13/2020
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