For Stephanie Scoma, service is central to life as a nursing student
In the Emergency Department of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Stephanie Scoma has played countless games of “who can stay still the longest.”
“It takes a lot of imagination and negotiating to take a little kid’s blood pressure,” she explains. “They obviously don’t want to sit still, so I started to make a game out of it.”
At other times, Scoma takes out a miniature plastic turtle and gently places it in the child’s palm. “Can you please hold my turtle for me?” she asks them.
“They get so focused on the turtle, that they don’...
