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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.
At 108, Dominican sister says God just wants me to hang around
Friday, Apr. 30, 2021
By Catholic News Service
EAST WILLISTON, N.Y. To put Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella’s extraordinarily long life into historical perspective, consider that Pope Pius X was pontiff and Woodrow Wilson was U.S. president when she was born in 1913.
Nine popes and 18 presidents later, Sr. Piscatella, a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville, N.Y., is defying the aging process while living independently in a condominium apartment she shares with another religious sister at a Long Island village.
Sr. Piscatella celebrated her 108th birthday April 20.
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