Farming is in Tommy Fields' blood, but nursing is in his heart.
Fields, who graduated from Brenau University's nursing school in 2006, works in the intensive care unit at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville. He also raises chickens on a farm in Commerce. "I'd been working toward this goal for about 27 years, so I'm very thankful to - finally - start being a nurse. I've always felt like nursing was what I was created to do and [what I] wanted to do," said Fields ... more
Martha Britt lives in Dacula, about 19 miles from her job at Gwinnett Medical Center in Duluth but just two miles from co-worker Amy Tsangarides, a nurse who shares the same shift.
As gas prices approached $4 a gallon this spring, the two met in a grocery store parking lot between their homes and began to car pool. Britt, 64, and Tsangarides, 41, signed up for the Clean Air Campaign's ... more
A registered nurse turned stay-at-home mom, Connie Copley has combined her two chosen professions into the most heartbreaking job: stay-at-home nurse.
Her patient is her 19-year-old son. He is dying from Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare form of juvenile cancer he has battled since he was 12.
And though Tyler has hospice nurses now, the job of primary caregiver can't be taken from Connie any more than can the job of being his mom. "We have a saying around here," Connie says ... more