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When Nurse Ally Marcello sees a problem, she covers it with love.

The Long Island Jewish Medical Center ICU nurse has recently begun an effort to make personalized blankets for her patients and their family members. She started making the blankets right before COVID-19 hit. What started as a simple act has grown to where Marcello is receiving donations of both time and money to help buoy the effort. And, in the midst of a pandemic, she is able to provide a small memory and keepsake to those who lost loved ones.

The simple act of offering a handmade, personal blanket to a sick patient or their worried loved one creates a goodwill well beyond the labor it takes to stitch it together. As a result, Marcello has become an inspiration both in person at her hospital and online amongst fellow nurses.

We caught up with Marcello to ask her about the origins of the blankets, what they’ve meant to her patients and how she might see her program grow.

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Roosevelt Davis, MSN, RN knows the value of working hard. After a successful college football career and a bachelor's degree in Political Science, Roosevelt decided to pursue his passion and complete a second degree - a master’s degree in nursing (MSN). Today, Roosevelt works as a Pediatric Cardiovascular ICU (CVICU) nurse who helps sick kids at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County.

Roosevelt comes from a big family of medical professionals. And, while they played a large role in guiding him towards the nursing field. Ultimately, it was his life experiences and passion for helping others that drove his decision to become a nurse.

With roots that go back to childhood, Roosevelt, a world-class athlete who could have played professional football after college, talked to us about his transition from sports to nursing, what it was like to earn a second degree in nursing and what drives him to be so selfless in the workforce.

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E4E Relief, a North Carolina-based charity founded in response to the tragic 9/11 attacks, has set up a new program - the Brave of Heart Fund - in conjunction with New York Life Foundation and the Cigna Foundation to help offset the financial burden on families who’ve lost loved ones in the healthcare field from COVID-19 coronavirus.

Families of those working on the healthcare frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic may be eligible to apply for support from the Brave of Heart Fund and receive grant support for medical care, counseling, food, transportation, education, and other needs as they manage the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and begin to move forward.

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Nurse Whittney Powers is on the negotiating team that’s discussing a new contract between a union of about 8,000 Seattle-area hospital employees and the Providence Health & Services-owned Swedish Hospital healthcare system. 

The strike, which has been contentious at times, has many implications, including on patient care and employee futures. 

We caught up with Powers to ask her what led up to the strike, what happens next and how both parties might be affected. 

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Nurse Mercy Gono has worked hard to become who she is today. After moving from Liberia in West Africa to the United States, Gono learned English, studied hard, and has progressed through the nursing profession. Mercy started her medical career as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) and then continued on to receive her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and is currently working on her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. She obtained success in large part to her self dedication and belief in education. 

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As a nurse, it can often feel like you’re climbing never-ending staircases, running down the halls as if the last few seconds of a clock is ticking out, or that you’re climbing walls and swinging from problem to problem. The job can be that tough, draining and demanding. But for ICU nurse, Madyson Howard, those hurdles and gauntlets are a part of her life outside the hospital, too. The nurse is also a finalist on the nationally televised program, American Ninja Warrior.

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It’s hard to know where to begin when talking about Asma Inge-Hanif. The hardworking, selfless caregiver, who is the director and co-Founder of IBM/Al-Nisaa Healthy Solutions Medical Center, has done so much for others throughout her career. She is a nurse, a chaplain, and has started countless initiatives to help underserved and forgotten people and she does so having seen so much sadness in and around her life over the years. 

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Rebecca Love, the first nurse to give a TEDx talk and the founder of many businesses including HireNurses.com, spoke with us about her inspirations, why she became a nurse and how the support from her mother, who is also a nurse, changed her life and likely the lives of many others.  

The Massachusetts-based nurse is as passionate as they come. In one way, she is driven by a myriad of projects and the dream of helping all nurses find a better way to do their job. But in another way, Love is driven by a single idea: to elevate the public perception of nurses to ensure that the job of bedside caregiver doesn’t go extinct. 

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