<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#1c1e21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-size: 14px;" class="">Rosa Sacharin (of blessed memory) worked for many years as a pediatric nurse, and then taught nursing.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#1c1e21" class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Scotland's Nurse of the Year in 1981, Rosa also wrote the field's definitive textbook, "Principles of Paediatric Nursing.”</span><br class=""><br class=""></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#1c1e21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-size: 14px;" class="">Toward the end of her life, Rosa contributed a chapter to "Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose" (edited by Jeanne Bryner and Cortney Davis).<br class=""><br class=""></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#1c1e21" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">We just learned today that "Learning to Heal" was honored with the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Award in 2019 (#1 in the category "Creative Works”).</span><br class=""><br class=""></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#1c1e21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-size: 14px;" class="">We are so incredibly proud of Rosa, and how fitting that — like a good nurse — she won this award as part of a team.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Fulltext/2020/01000/Book_of_the_Year_Awards_2019.23.aspx" class="">https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Fulltext/2020/01000/Book_of_the_Year_Awards_2019.23.aspx</a></span></font></p></body></html>