Featured Nurses, Part 2

A love of the profession took this group of nurses in various directions. Recent college graduates are transitioning away from campus life and into the nursing world. Longtimers have accrued years of hard-earned knowledge and put it toward establishing specialized careers. View their OrganizedWisdom profiles below:

1. @andyatFAD Andy McPhee was an RN for more than 20 years, working in critical care, drug and alcohol detox, and medical, rehabilitative, and clinical units. He also taught an LPN program for 10 years. For the past 25 years, he has worked in the publishing field as a writer, editor, and now senior acquisitions editor at F.A. Davis Company, an independently owned medical publisher, where he helps “new and experienced authors translate their vision for books into full reality.” In addition, he blogs “to help my authors better understand the writing and publishing process, help others interested in writing and publishing in healthcare . . . and sometimes just to get stuff off my chest.”


2. @angespejo Angela Espejo recently graduated from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where she was part of a leadership team for a nonprofit, participated in groups for young leadership development, and volunteered extensively with nursing organizations and for nursing student representation. As a graduate nurse, she is preparing to become an RN, and is working in Halifax, Canada, as part of their New Graduate Transition program for nurses. Her blog, FourLettersLatter.com, is about making the journey from campus life to the professional world.


3. @momblevins Anne Blevins, BSN, RN, is a clinical nurse specialist and wound care clinical coordinator at Drake Center, a medical and rehabilitative care facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received the 2009 Outstanding Research in Wound Care award by the National Alliance of Wound Care. She has authored and co-authored numerous clinical posters and case studies that have been published in wound care journals as well as presented at wound care conferences.


4. @Ashleigh_RN Ashleigh Pugh-Clarke, MN, BScN, RN, CON(C) is an educator and technology coordinator at de Souza Institute, an oncology nursing center in Toronto. Pugh is CNA-certified in oncology and has worked in the field since 2006. She is currently developing a course on the foundations of oncology nursing, a “cancer 101” course that will be delivered through eLearning. “I LOVE technology,” she writes, and she recently began a blog, deSouzaNurse, where she explores current issues, news, and Web sites that are relevant to oncology nurses; because three people close to her are fighting cancer, she touches on the personal as well.


5. @barbaraphillips Barbara C. Phillips, MN, is a nurse practitioner, business coach, and health coach whose career of over 30 years has taken her into critical care, hospice, primary care, long-term care, and home care. She now has her own clinical practice, has developed webinars and teleclasses, and founded Nurse Practitioner Business Owners, where the idea for a blog “was born (in 2007) out of the need and frustration for Nurse Practitioners in private, independent practice to be able to connect, share resources, offer support, and learn from one another.”

If you know of nurses who are worthy of attention on these pages, please tweet your recommendation to @organizedwisdom in this format: “I recommend @[username] as a top nurse for @OrganizedWisdom,” or use our contact form.

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By Julie Bohlen, MBA-HCM, ELS