Steward Stories – Sereda White

Sereda White  is a clinical pharmacist who has worked at Jackson since 2002. She previously spent more than fourteen years as a pharmacist and manager at Walgreens. Coming to Jackson from that corporate environment was a bit of a culture shock, says White, a high-energy, no-nonsense steward who has never been afraid to speak out whenContinue reading “Steward Stories – Sereda White”

Steward Stories – Jasmine Lalanne

Jasmine Lalanne, RN, BSN, has been a nurse for about fifteen years — twelve of them in the pediatric transplant unit at Holtz Children’s Hospital. Lalanne has proven herself a leader as both nurse and as a steward. She served as chairman of the unit practice council, spearheading a successful campaign to reduce central line infections. “BeingContinue reading “Steward Stories – Jasmine Lalanne”

Steward Stories – Donna Bent

Donna Bent, RN, is a critical care nurse in the ICU at Jackson North and one of the strongest steward leaders in the facility. The London-born nurse has worked at Jackson since 1998. She began at JMH, but became really active with Local 1991 when she transferred to Jackson North in 2006. “Staffing was horrendous,”Continue reading “Steward Stories – Donna Bent”

Steward Stories – Stephanie Ellis

Stephanie Ellis, MSW, is a community health counselor at  Jackson North Community Mental Health Center. Ellis previously worked at Barry University and Miami Bridge. When she came to Jackson more than ten years ago, she joined Local 1991 in orientation due to some good advice from her mother, who spent 30 years as a clerkContinue reading “Steward Stories – Stephanie Ellis”

Steward Stories — Nadine Bazan-Sanchez

Nadine Bazan-Sanchez, RN, has been a nurse at Jackson for 23 years, mostly in the NICU on the main campus. Sanchez originally hails from New York, of Haitian and Jamaican extract. He father worked at Jackson as an interpreter and she entered nursing school there. “I’ve always been a Jackson girl,” she says. The motherContinue reading “Steward Stories — Nadine Bazan-Sanchez”