Nancy Lammers and Abigail Clauhs

Nancy, a PACE nurse in Portland, shares with colleague and chaplain Abigil about what brought her to nursing. Nancy has been with Providence since July 2023.

Adno Gatah Interview

Dr. Adno Gatah is the medical director at Hi-Gate Urgent Care for Children. She is a triple board-certified nurse practitioner in the pediatric, adult, and geriatric populations and has worked in a nonprofit clinic in downtown South Minneapolis serving multicultural...

Rachel Sumo Interview

Rachel Sumo, MSN, AGNP-C, PMHNP-C Rachel Sumo is a determined, self-motivated, compassionate, and influential health professional born and raised in Liberia, West Africa, and she migrated to the United States in 2001. Growing up in Liberia, a country with poor...

Grace Gao Interview

Grace Gao, PhD, DNP, RN-BC, LHIT-HP, is an ANCC certified Informatics Nurse and public health nurse. She earned her PhD in Nursing and DNP in Nursing Informatics and Integrative Health from the University of Minnesota. Grace is currently an associate...

Mary Beth Majors Interview

Mary Beth Major MS, APRN, AGNP-C Economic necessity was the impetus for enrolling in nursing classes at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. Caring for medically complex patients experiencing health care inequities led me to St. Catherine University College for Adults...

Mary Absolon Interview

Mary Absolon, R.N., M.S.N. Visionary Nurse Leader and Mentor Dedicated health policy registered nurse executive with accomplishment advancing quality and equity for Minnesotans through excellence in regulatory systems  Established Mary Absolon Health Policy Research for Nursing Endowed Fund, St....

Doris Osuorah Interview

Doris C. Wie Osuorah, Registered Nurse: I am from Liberia, West Africa. I fled my country during the Liberian civil war in 1990 and spent 3 years in the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana. I arrived in the US in...

Mary Broderick Interview

Mary Broderick has worked with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet (CSJ), St. Paul Province, for over 40 years. She joined with Sister Anne Joachim Moore at the founding of St. Mary's Junior College as a nursing professor and...

Mary Sonnen Interview

My name is Mary Sonnen. I graduated from Archbishop Murray Memorial High School in 1962 and the College of St. Catherine in 1966. I have a Bachelor of Science degree, Nursing being my focus. Upon graduation and certification as a...

Jitka Prokesova & Rori Harris-Killough

Jitka shares her story of getting her nursing degree in communist ruled Czechoslovakia in 1985 and defecting to the U.S. two years later. In the U.S. she couldn't work as a nurse but it was all she ever wanted to...

How Nursing Has Changed History

This interview was conducted as a part of a research paper for how history has been changed by nursing. Jacquline Cheek is a nursing instructor at a community college in Arkansas. she has been a nurse for over 30 years...

Recording – 11-27-2023 11:25:23

me and adalila Perez talked about her future nursing career and how she is advancing in that at a young age.

Norah Mentor and Dorynn Mentor talk about nursing and the experiences that led her to choose nursing.

Norah Mentor(15) talks to her sister Dorynn Mentor(24) about the decisions and experiences that led up to her choosing nursing as a career. Dorynn Mentions her struggle finding a good undergraduate major that she actually enjoyed. The impact that she...

Tiwonge Chirwa 10-13-23

Tiwonge Chirwa, a recent graduate of St. Kate's Entry Level Masters of Science in Nursing Program, brings a profound commitment to patient care to her new role at Abbott Hospital in Minneapolis. Her journey into healthcare was inspired by her...

Gwen Short Interview

I became a family nurse practitioner in 1995, and before that worked primarily in public health, as both a public health nurse and as a Masters of Public Health (MPH) prepared health educator. I was fortunate to be in the...

Tenzin Lhamo 10-11-2023

Tenzin Lhamo has had a wealth of nursing experience. She attended nursing school in India as an immigrant from Tibet. Her family came to the United States in 2006. Before graduating from St. Catherine University as an Adult-Geriatric Nurse Practitioner...

Rebeca Barroso

Rebeca Barroso was born in Cuba and migrated to the United States with her parents at the age of 13. Rebeca's interest in nursing came through a circuitous route through the late 1960s and early 1970s women's health movement, a...

Linda Hadden 9.22.2023

Dr. Linda Hadden is certified as both a pediatric and adult care nurse practitioner. She received a master’s of science in Nursing and post-master’s Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Certification at St. Kate’s , and a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) at...

Lori Winchell 7.28.23

BIOGRAPHY: I was born in Glendale, California in the early 1950’s. I grew up in a small town called Tujunga. I attended a public high school in the late 1960’s during a time of social change. I remember events such...

RN Interview with Stacey Thetford

Hello my name is Obrieann Gniech and Im 18 years old today on September 10th 2023 I had the pleasure of interviewing Stacey Thetford, and RN from Oklahoma.

Recording – 08-24-2023 19:10:29

In this interview I talk to my mom, who was a nurse, and talk about her experience working as a nurse. In the interview you can get to know what it was like to be a nurse and here all...

Mary Lagaard Interview 7-7-2023

BIOGRAPHY: Mary Wotzka Lagaard entered her nursing career through the “back door” of psychology. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Benedict’s College in central MN, but eventually received a nursing degree from the University of Iowa in...

Joann Dodson

Join Ralph Jarl and Carter Brooks as they speak with Joann Dodson, a neighbor and friend from Friendship Village of Kalamazoo!