Nancy Burgess
Nancy Burgess is a registered nurse (RN) with experience with direct patient care and nursing management in an acute care hospital and in independent school settings. After leaving full-time nursing to raise her family, Nancy has since been authoring articles online, mostly medical topics with an occasional diversion to cooking and back-to-school websites. When not working in the medical community or writing, Nancy continues to be a caregiver for two college-age children, a husband, and aging parents. She is a graduate of Laboure College in Boston, MA, where she earned an Associate of Science degree in nursing.
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