Nurse Manager Excels Despite Hearing Loss
Just before she was about to graduate from nursing school, a career counselor told Lynne Petree to face the facts: She would never be anything more than a school nurse. Months later, Petree, who has 3% hearing, called the counselor from the pediatric intensive care unit where she worked and told her to encourage students, rather than limit them. Petree is now the nurse manager at Heartland Surgical Specialty Hospital in Overland Park, KS.
