In Their Words

Emily McCracken, RN, is a unit coordinator for inpatient cancer units at The University of Kansas Health System. Listen as Emily discusses various aspects of her job as an inpatient cancer nurse, why she chose The University of Kansas Health System and what inspires her.

Courtney Leonard, RN, works in the inpatient cancer units at The University of Kansas Health System. Listen as Courtney talks about becoming a nurse and why she chooses to work with patients at The University of Kansas Health System.

You might say that Britton Streck is on the fast track. Less than five years after joining the health system as a floor nurse just out of nursing school, he progressed through two promotions before landing his current position as a nurse manager with a staff of more than 80 in Cardiovascular Progressive Care.

Whitney Watson became a nurse associate at our health system when she was still a junior in nursing school. As a new graduate a year later, she was hired as a staff nurse in Medical-Transplant Intensive Care.

Among the approximately 2,400 nurses at
The University of Kansas Health System is
an expert group known as clinical nurse specialists, or CNSs.