This article originally appeared in the December 2024 issue of Vital Signs. The traditional image of nursing is a person in scrubs, standing in a hospital and caring for patients at the bedside.

For both women, the moment was especially sweet. After years of work and sacrifice, Breezy, a Duke University Hospital nurse since 2020, and her newly graduated mother, Melonie, had both realized ...

Meet Connor, a student orthopaedic scrub nurse who assists surgeons while they operate. Part of our Bitesize world of work series. I love my job because I work as a small but very significant part ...