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As a Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) nurse at CentraState Medical Center with many years of ICU experience, Melissa Plastino, RN-BC returned to the ICU to help care for the many COVID-19 [...]

The Door  The coughing, nausea and chills Came in waves of severity, Didn’t know what to expect next Behind the door, I assured my family I was okay I wasn’t… Feeling scared and exhausted [...]

Since the development of COVID-19, normal is no longer a word used in North Jersey hospitals, especially in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). Every delivery is considered a possible [...]

Patricia Turner, BSN, RN, CWOCN, CWS, a wound ostomy nurse, wanted to do more to help her colleagues during the pandemic. Patty, who lives in Roxbury and is a NJSNA Region 1 member, started the [...]

With years of tradition behind the Pinning Ceremony for nursing students the pandemic threatened this tradition with a cancellation. Nasim Bibi, a senior nursing student at William Paterson [...]

As an ICU Clinical Director at Monmouth Medical Center during the pandemic the priority for JoAnn Wolfson, DNP, RN, CCRN, NJSNA Region 4 member, was to keep the ICU staff safe by ensuring a safe [...]

Rachel Koshy DNP, ANP, NP-C, RN, NJSNA Region 1 member, is a Supervisory APN in the Observation Unit at University Hospital of New Jersey in Newark. As the number of observation patients [...]

As a Clinical Nurse Educator and NJSNA Region 6 member, Sarajane Campbell DNP, RN-BC, CHN, has developed a real connection to the nurses she practices with. Sarajane explains “Many of them are [...]

Susan Sutphen, BSN, RN-BC, NJSNA Region 4 nurse, is the epitome of a caring nurse. She has been a nurse for 28 years and, despite extensive nursing experience, her life and career have changed [...]

Ellen Angelo, DNP, RN, NJSNA Region 6 member and Chief Nursing Officer at Jersey Shore University Medical Center (JSUMC) affirms that this pandemic has been an extremely challenging time. Ellen [...]