Sandra Jacques:  

I was married immediately after graduation from Miami Valley Hospital School of Nursing and we will celebrate our 50th Anniversary in 2010. I have since had two children, two grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. My first jobs were at Dayton Children¿s Psychiatric Hospital, then Dayton State Hospital, and then the MVH School of Nursing as a Clinical Instructor, and as a MVH Night Supervisor. During that time I attended classes at the University of Dayton. After a brief period at Fostoria City Hospital in Fostoria, Ohio, we moved back to Dayton and I worked evenings in the Recovery Room at MVH and had a brief stint as Evening Supervisor. I began working at The Children¿s Medical Center (formerly Barney¿s Convalescent Hospital, now Dayton Children¿s) in February, 1967, one month after it opened as an acute care hospital. I worked part-time evenings, then full-time days in the ER for about nine years. I was the only nurse on duty for many years until the census grew to where another nurse was needed. My next position was as Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Clinician, a first for Dayton. One of my responsibilities was establishing the Hemophilia Treatment Center. We saw adults as well as children using a comprehensive care model with case management. That also was a first for Dayton (1975). I taught individuals or family members to administer clotting factor intravenously at home. I also worked with children with cancer and their families. Through the years my responsibilities changed over and over again. I was also Data Manager for what is now called The Children¿s Oncology Group, a national group sponsoring clinical trials. I was the only nurse in the hospital administering intravenous chemotherapy until I was able to develop an ongoing course to teach other nurses about pediatric cancer and chemotherapy. I made home visits for hospice care until the Hospice of Dayton o...Expand for more