When Baylee McGrath was 12, her grandmother died as a result of a medical error — and it affected her profoundly. “It changed the trajectory of my life,” she says. “From that point on, I knew I wanted to go into nursing. I didn’t want anyone else’s family to go through what my family went [Continue Reading]
Staying the Course: How nurse navigators help patients on their journey through treatment
When Williadene Brown was diagnosed with cancer, she had plenty of questions. She just couldn’t think of the words to ask them. “It was like a numbness,” she recalls. “I couldn’t talk to my family. I could barely talk to my pastor. I just couldn’t talk. I remember sitting on the side of my bed, thinking, [Continue Reading]
After a Family Tragedy, a Nurse Found a New Calling in Transplant Care
Organ transplant recipients are close to Jessica Borden’s heart. Borden, a heart transplant coordinator at the Center for Advanced Heart Failure at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, was drawn to this specialty for a personal reason. Her younger brother, Jared, was fatally injured in a horseback riding accident a decade ago, when he was just 11. [Continue Reading]
At 57, Rhonda Trotter, RN, is just starting her dream job at Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital
It took Rhonda Trotter nearly four decades to achieve her dream of becoming a nurse. In 1983, when she graduated from high school, she was a single mother living with her parents and trying to chart a path to a successful career. She already knew she wanted to go into nursing: from childhood, she says, [Continue Reading]
Memorial Hermann Nurse Health Line Provides Help for Those Looking for Health Information
It’s not always obvious where to turn when you get sick. Sometimes you’ll head for an emergency room, other times to an urgent care center. However, sometimes you don’t need to go to either. Memorial Hermann’s Nurse Health Line is a free telephone triage service, available in any language, which can help you determine the [Continue Reading]
Can’t stand the sound of people chewing? It might be misophonia.
If the sound of someone eating chips makes you want to run out of the room screaming, you could have misophonia. The disorder is characterized by extreme emotional reactions to everyday sounds, like that of other people chewing, talking or even breathing. While many of us get irritated when we hear someone slurping their soup [Continue Reading]