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ORLANDO HEROES

HONORING ORLANDO NURSES AND HEALTHCARE
PROFESSIONALS IN MAY

Orlando Heroes Sponsored by Attorney Dan Newlin

Debra Watkins, RN, MSN


Debra Watkins, RN, MSN, was driving to work at 7 AM when two trucks on the bridge ahead of her collided head-on. She pulled over, leaped out, and noting that one truck's driver seemed fine, dashed to the truck that was burning.

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Mary Evans, Clinical Nurse, LPN


When Mary Evans' brother died at 34, she was working. "I wasn't there," she says. "He needed CPR. Maybe he would've lived."

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Laurie Fox, RN, BSN


Laurie Fox, RN, BSN, was driving home from her 12-hour shift as a clinical nurse 2 in Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center's same-day program in Lebanon, N.H. It was dusk on October 21, 2003, when a motorcycle helmet struck just above her windshield.

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Mary Pennington, RN, RNFA, CNOR


Mary Pennington, RN, RNFA, CNOR, was driving her two children home from school when another vehicle ran a red light and stop sign, smashing the passenger side of her car and spinning it twice. Despite her blaring horn and screeching tires, she told her son, "We'll be OK."

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