Work That Matters

Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Judy. She wanted to be a nurse when she grew up. Judy took auto shop class. Judy worked on a pit crew. And Judy flew airplanes. [Cue the record scratch

Credit a school field trip with inspiring Senta Georgia, PhD, to change the world. When Dr. Georgia was a young woman growing up in New Jersey, her fifth-grade class took a field trip to a local

Johanna Olson-Kennedy, MD, likes to say her work is “moving people from surviving to thriving.” In her work as medical director for the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s

In high school, Dagmar Grefe gravitated to all kinds of different subjects, including theology, psychology, philosophy and history. But when one of her teachers predicted she would pursue a career in

A group, known as the ‘6AM-ers,’ rise early in the morning and travel from as far away as Monrovia, Pasadena and Sylmar twice a month to donate blood and platelets at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’

The Amerman Family Foundation Dog Therapy Program has more than 100 fur volunteers who have all left their adorable paw prints on the hearts of our patients and staff. However, we want to honor a

“I thought I’d never get the job. However, I applied, was selected and just celebrated 10 years working at CHLA!” The job mentioned above is not a nurse, a doctor or anything one would typically

Doctors should listen to their patients, empathize with them, and find ways to communicate effectively with them. Sounds like common sense, right? This hasn’t always been the case, though. What was

Written by HIlary Tighe, RN resident, CTICU /CV Acute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles It’s 7:20 a.m. and the 49 new graduate nurses of the September 2015 cohort trickle into the seventh-floor

Meet Luna, the dog therapy volunteer who works nights at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.