First A Nurse: No Matter Where, No Matter What | Page 22

Life-and-Death DECISIONS
ON THE JOB
“Nurses are prepared to teach, listen,
and counsel and to really, really
hear people—to develop a plan
with patients, not for them.”
JULIE
Thomas-Beckett
BSN, MSN, FNP
CON BSN ’86, MSN ‘91
Julie Thomas-Beckett is a Family Nurse
Practitioner with the McLaren Medical
Group’s Primary Care Partners in
East Lansing, Michigan.