The Tablet May 6, 2021
Nurse practitioner Novlet Davis-Bucknor poses with daughters Shekeya Washington, left, a registered nurse, and LaToya Bucknor, a nurse practitioner, at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center in Roslyn, N.Y. (Photos: CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz)
By Gregory A. Shemitz
ROSLYN, N.Y. (CNS) Caring for the sick is a vocation and way of life shared by a mother and two daughters serving together at a Catholic Hospital in Long Island, New York.
Novlet Davis-Bucknor, 59, is a nurse practitioner in the cardiothoracic department of St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center in Nassau County. Her oldest child, LaToya Bucknor, 39, also a nurse practitioner, works with the critical care team. Another daughter, Shekeya Washington, 31, is a registered nurse in the medical intensive care unit.
Mother and daughters work together in Catholic hospital
Friday, May. 07, 2021
By Catholic News Service
ROSLYN, N.Y. Caring for the sick is a vocation and way of life shared by a mother and two daughters serving together at a Catholic hospital in Long Island, N.Y.
Novlet Davis-Bucknor, 59, is a nurse practitioner in the cardiothoracic department of St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center in Nassau County. Her oldest child, LaToya Bucknor, 39, also a nurse practitioner, works with the critical care team. Another daughter, Shekeya Washington, 31, is a registered nurse in the medical intensive care unit.
“It’s good to work together because we always have each other to lean on,” said Novlet, who was born and raised in Jamaica and immigrated at age 26 to the United States, where a few years later she began her studies to be a nurse.
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