Corey Turner
Around 2006, I asked Jonathan McElvy the same questions I had asked every manager or role model early in my journalism career. How can I grow and what should I be doing to advance my career in the newspaper industry?
At that time, he gave me a book titled âThe Richest Man Who Ever Lived: King Solomon s Secrets to Successâ by Steven K. Scott. The gift was accompanied by a conversation about the importance of being a good person with clear goals, before learning how to advance in a career.
I had received a lot of career advice at the point, but it was the first time any boss said to focus on becoming a better person and doing the right things. If we work hard and try to do the right thing, the career will work itself out. Â
A COVID-19 vaccination clinic catering to adolescents, who recently became eligible to receive the vaccine produced by Pfizer, is scheduled for 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday at Heights High School, 413 E. 13th St.
Free vaccines will be administered to residents age 12 and older, while supplies last, as part of an event being held by U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, United Memorial Medical Center and Houston Community College. On-site registration is required.
The Pfizer vaccine, which requires two doses for maximum efficacy, was authorized for emergency use in people age 12-15 earlier this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The vaccine was previously limited to people age 16 and older.
Annual Salute to Nurses honors nurse heroes (sponsored)
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Last year’s National Nurses Week theme “The Year of the Nurse” continues for 2021, with front-line nurse caregivers fighting to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic that began in early 2020. Then, as a winter storm hit in February this year, Texas nurses were confronted with the great challenge of power outages and water shortages but still rose to the challenge to provide top care for their patients.
Nurses Week, May 6-12, 2021, brings to light a year that demanded changes in safety protocols throughout the medical community, such as remote telehealth patient visits, visitor limitations and masking requirements. Along with patient care also came new duties for diagnostic testing and, once vaccines became available, health care professionals began vaccinating the public.