Sue Dickey reflects on a 43-year legacy in nursing
Sue Dickey knows nursing is in her blood. Her great grandmother became a small-town Pennsylvania nurse in 1900.
“I visited there about 20 years ago,” Dickey says. “The lady who lived next door to her former house, who was in her nineties, said to me, ‘did you know your great grandmother delivered me?’”
Dickey found her own calling in pediatric nursing, then obstetrical neonatal practice, and came to Temple to teach in 1981. Now, she is set to retire after 43 years delivering Temple nurses into the world, so to speak. All told, it’s been around 90 semesters.
“I...