NURSING NARRATIVES is a new regular feature for UVA nursing students that provides them with space to express

$24K
Jefferson Trust funding for VNL's NURSING NARRATIVES through 2025

their thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Virginia Nursing Legacy (VNL) thanks the Jefferson Trust, which has funded this enterprise in both the VNL's print and digital editions through May 2025.

This edition of NARRATIVES focuses on the intersection of nursing and parenthood, and all the many ways that nurses are in our lives from the very beginning and mark us in unique and profound ways. We also offer this edition's theme as a nod to National Parents' Day, celebrated at the end of each July.

NARRATIVES is edited by DNP student and Jefferson Trust Grant recipient Sherrie Page Guyer, MSN, RN, editor. Faculty members who would like to coordinate student assignments and students with article ideas that should be considered for this space may email Sherrie: duf7as@virginia.edu.

E.J. Rauch

A Glimmer of Light During the Pandemic

What CPT Edward Rauch Jr., a DNP student, U.S. Army Nurse Corps member, learned when caring for his first-ever pregnant COVID patient and her baby. 

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DNP student Margie Guillory

Motherhood Mentor

How clinical nurse specialist Margie Guillory, mom to four launched adult children, helps colleagues navigate motherhood and professional responsibilities.

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Melissa Neck

Two Patients in One

Long-time labor and delivery nurse Melissa Neck on caring for moms, infants, and their birthing stories.

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Sabrina Munro CNL student

If I Were Born Again, I'd Want to be Born as You

The deep, loving, and complicated feelings CNL student Sabrina Munro has for her mother, who gave birth to her as a teenager.

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DNP student Jenn Conklin

Nurse-Mother

The story of the day that nurse Jenn Conklin returned to the hospital to deliver her son after working overtime.

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Pamela Byrnes, DNP student and psychiatric NP

Exhaling at the End of the Day

The roller coaster of grief and jubilation that is providing nursing care to expectant parents in an ultrasound clinic.

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