A Grand Forks nurse's window notes carried patients through treatment
Theresia Rieger taped a new message of hope each morning in a window over the Altru Cancer Center entrance. Patient Dan Dahl finished treatment, and Rieger received Altru's Difference Maker Award.
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Nurse Theresia Rieger taped a fresh message of hope each morning in a window above the entrance to the Altru Cancer Center in Grand Forks, InForum reported. Patients walking in could read that day's note.
Patient Dan Dahl finished treatment with those messages as part of the walk in. Rieger received Altru's Difference Maker Award. The story is the daily note and that award, not a description of anyone's medical chart.
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