The more than 70 member organizations of the Nursing Consortium of Florida have elected four new directors, and re-elected one, for a new two-year term.
The newly elected members of the Consortium’s board of directors are: Cape Coral Hospital’s Interim chief nurse executive and vice president operations Rebekah Jernstedt MSN, RN; HCA Florida Woodmont Hospital’s, chief nursing officer Caren J. Bock, MBA, MSN, RN, LSSBB; Florida Atlantic University Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing’s associate dean of academic programs Joy Longo PhD, RNC-NIC, CNE; Memorial Regional Hospital South director of clinical education and organizational development Lauren K. Oates MSN, RN; and Nova Southeastern University Ron and Kathy Assaf College of Nursing’s Graduate Nursing Faculty associate professor Joanne Masella, EdD, MSN, RN. RN. The newly elected directors begin their terms in...Read More

Coral Olazagasti, MD, expected a relatively smooth transition when she moved to New York to start her residency after graduating from medical school in her native Puerto Rico. But that proved wishful thinking.
She not only experienced major culture shock, but also her superiors and colleagues often chastised her for speaking too loudly and joked about her accent. “Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory so when I moved to New York, I thought it wasn’t going to be a big change,” said Olazagasti, now a thoracic medical oncologist at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. “But I went through a significant number of adjustments and challenges, and that was a really lonely time. Not many people in my situation were talking about... Read More

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