Skilled Nursing News November 19, 2024
Natalie Palmer was a newly licensed vocational nurse (LVN) who needed work.
What she wanted was something more valuable.
“I wanted freedom,” says Palmer, 55. The divorced mother of three saw the power of nursing care as a child. Her mother was a nurse and would take her and her sister to the senior facility where she worked. “She would bake cookies and we’d pass them out,” Palmer says. “I don’t think of residents as being ‘residents.’ They’re people. I treat them like they are my own family.”
When she downloaded the Clipboard Health app, she found both.
Palmer’s move into her own career as an LVN came later in life, at a time when her children were grown up....
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