Salute to Nurses...
Honoring Those Who Care For Us Every Day
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By StoryStudio on May 6, 2025
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National Nurses Week, May 6-12, is a time to honor the important contributions of nurses, ranging from providing life-saving support to offering comfort for patients in need. More than 4.3 million nurses in the U.S. provide care every day in hospitals, doctor’s offices, schools, nursing care facilities, and private homes.
With more than 542,000 nurses in California working in every aspect of healthcare, the San Francisco Chronicle and California Casualty salute the heroes that care for us every day.
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With more than 542,000 nurses in California working in every aspect of healthcare, the San Francisco Chronicle and California Casualty salute the heroes that care for us every day.
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After studying at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., and then University of Virginia, Stone became a travel nurse, landing at the San Francisco hospital, where he has been for the past 19 years. Stone, 62, works in telemetry and med surg (medical-surgical) in the cardiac unit, taking care of patients who may be recovering from a heart attack, need a valve replaced or have had a heart transplant and require monitoring.
“I was going to retire when I was 65 unless I was still enjoying it, and right now, I really still enjoy it,” he said. “I get home exhausted, but I really look forward to going into work.”
Nearly 30 years ago, Dan Stone, a registered nurse in the inpatient cardiology unit at California Pacific Medical Center, made his transition from working in hospitality to nursing. “I was looking for something more fulfilling — working with people, working with other team members, all for a common goal of making sure that people are being attended to,” he said.
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Pepper worked as a part-time nursing assistant before moving to the hematology oncology unit, where she worked for six years, treating blood cancers, leukemias and lymphomas. About four and a half years ago, Pepper switched to the outpatient side working at the oncology infusion center at UCSF Mission Bay, where patients can get anything from chemotherapy treatments to iron infusions.
“What I like about working outpatient is that patients aren't quite as sick. Everybody goes home at the end of the day. My experience with oncology patients is that they're super appreciative of the nurses,” she said.
Shelley Pepper, who has been a nurse for 18 years, was inspired to pursue the profession after an experience as a patient when she was pregnant with her son. She studied at San Francisco State, and by the time her son was 5 years old, Pepper became a registered nurse.
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Paterson’s career also changes with advancements in technology. “It’s not like I'm doing the same exact work that I did 10 years ago,” she said. “We have newer technologies, newer ways of doing surgeries so it stays interesting.”
When Sunnyvale native Glenda Paterson was a teenager, she got her first taste of the nursing profession. Her mother was a nurse at an assisted living facility and got her a job as a nursing assistant.
Paterson, 62, went on to study nursing at San Francisco State and started working for Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center about 38 years ago. She now works in the cardiac operating room five days a week. “I find it fascinating,” she said. “When you're in an operating room, you get to see inside the patients. I get to stare at a heart every day, and no surgery is the same because no person is the same. And you get to focus on one patient at a time. That's one thing I really like.”
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Paterson’s career also changes with advancements in technology. “It’s not like I'm doing the same exact work that I did 10 years ago,” she said. “We have newer technologies, newer ways of doing surgeries so it stays interesting.”