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  • Healing Hands: Maginia Morales

    Healing Hands: Maginia Morales

    Maginia Sajise Morales came to the United States for a better life. As a nurse, she enlisted in the National Guard, then became an active Army officer, serving in Bosnia and Iraq.

  • Activity boxes offer Veterans an escape from VA hospital routine

    Activity boxes offer Veterans an escape from VA hospital routine

    Patients at Orlando VA Medical Center can escape hospital routine with the therapeutic activity box, or TAB, which offers relaxing activities and materials from puzzles to coloring books.

  • Explore a nursing career helping Veterans at the National Black Nurses Association Institute and Conference

    Explore a nursing career helping Veterans at the National Black Nurses Association Institute and Conference

    VA Recruiters will be on hand July 23-28 to showcase nursing careers for the nation’s largest integrated health care organization.

  • Nurse practitioners can discover a career leading and shaping Veterans’ health care during the 2019 AANP National Conference in Indianapolis

    Nurse practitioners can discover a career leading and shaping Veterans’ health care during the 2019 AANP National Conference in Indianapolis

    At the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a career [...]

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Army, Air Force Veteran Elis Salamone

    #VeteranOfTheDay Army, Air Force Veteran Elis Salamone

    Lieutenant Colonel Elis Salamone served for 29 years, including some time in the U.S. Army, Army Reserves and the U.S. Air Force.

  • VA nursing outlook: continued growth for the future

    VA nursing outlook: continued growth for the future

    Nurses are essential to VA’s world-class standard of care. We [...]

  • Why SHE chose VA: Shannon Magee, Lung Cancer Screening Coordinator

    Why SHE chose VA: Shannon Magee, Lung Cancer Screening Coordinator

    “My father was a Navy corpsman,” reflects Nurse Practitioner Shannon [...]

  • VA nurse receives national award for excellence

    VA nurse receives national award for excellence

    Big congratulations to Anabel Quintanar, RN-BC, MSN, for winning the [...]

  • How a nursing career with VA changed a former combat medic’s life

    How a nursing career with VA changed a former combat medic’s life

    Jeffrey Ballard, R.N. and Army Veteran, began his medical career [...]

  • Caring for Veterans helps VA nurse find healing

    Caring for Veterans helps VA nurse find healing

    Katelyn McKibben, R.N., has always been passionate about taking care [...]

  • Influence: A journey worth traveling; an immigrant’s dream to be a nurse in America

    Influence: A journey worth traveling; an immigrant’s dream to be a nurse in America

    Every day in VA hospitals nationwide, nurses dedicate themselves to [...]

  • Influence: Ensuring access to treatment for Veterans, no matter the location

    Influence: Ensuring access to treatment for Veterans, no matter the location

    Every day in VA hospitals nationwide, nurses dedicate themselves to [...]

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