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NEWS FROM JOHNS HOPKINS NURSING Beatrice Marseille came to the U.S. from Haiti and earned a degree Nurse midwife and PhD student NEWS FROM JOHNS HOPKINS NURSING
Reproducing
Nurse Entrepreneur:
Beatrice Marseille
Results:
Ashley Gresh

in nuclear medicine in 1992. “But I always wanted to be a nurse,” she
says. Today, she’s a DNP-prepared, hospitalist nurse practitioner, a nurse
entrepreneur with her organizations Maple Adult Care and Maple Community,
Ashley Gresh is driven to provide new
and a nurse leader with her nonprofit Vision for Haiti. “We go to rural Haiti,
the world—with compassionate care
where there is no running water, no electricity, and just a small clinic,” Beatrice
through quality research.
says. In the United States or abroad, the bottom line is community care: one-
on-one direct patient care, connecting patients to social services, coordinating mothers and babies—everywhere in
care so those in remote locations are not left behind. “Being a nurse, you Going strictly by the numbers will tell
learn how to do a lot of things,” she says. “You have the ability to make a you she has touched the lives of many
difference in your community.” women and children in the United
States, India, and Malawi. Now a
mother herself, Gresh breaks her
Seeing All Sides: Jenna Mermer nursing anatomy down like this:

• 50 percent PhD research. That’s
Jenna Mermer has experienced a quick trajectory in the two years since adapting and implementing group
she graduated from the MSN (Entry Into Nursing) program. “I didn’t postpartum and well-child care in
expect to become a supervisor so quickly, but I’m happy to serve where Malawi, with a focus on maternal
I’m useful and there’s a need,” she says. She’s 100 percent public health health as well as child health.
nurse; her duties are split between seeing patients and managing/building
24 out programs. “A hallmark of public health nurses is that we are asked • 25 percent work as a Global 25
to do many things beyond our job description.” This year, that meant Women’s Health Fellow, most
creating a COVID-19 information line at a clinic of the Howard County Health recently in India.
Department. “We took a handful of nurses and developed frequently asked
questions, protocols, a call tracking system, and more, from scratch, in a day.” • 10 percent public health nursing
It’s fast-paced work, but exactly what she wanted. “The one-on-one is why I clinical instructor.
became a nurse, but I love the high-level program management that lets me
The If nursing were a body, its brain from any walk of life, gender, design things that will work for people,” Mermer says. “And I still get to build a • 10 percent lead intern for the
would be leadership, flexibility,
background, or ZIP code.
personal connection with my patients.”
World Health Organization’s

Anatomy and creativity. Its heart would If you are unsure what you’d Global Alliance for Nursing and
be compassion, calm, and
Midwifery.
“look” like in nursing, try
perseverance. Its eyes and
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of a its hands would be skill and Anatomy of a Hopkins Nurse” • 5 percent research assistant for
experience.
perinatal health in Malawi. ◼
(nursing.jhu.edu/anatomy).
When you look at a Hopkins Meet folks like you, here and
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Marseille, Ashley Gresh, and
reflection of yourself. For just the journey can begin—or Jenna Mermer’s nursing anatomies,
as all bodies are unique, the continue—at the Johns build your own, or find out where
you fit into the profession at:
nursing profession offers nearly Hopkins School of Nursing. nursing.jhu.edu/anatomy
ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAN MATUTINA uncountable “fits” for a person