Inside Duke Medicine
Meet a Great Nurse: Alene Love
posted August 11th, 2010Alene Love, a clinical nurse specialist on Unit 6100 and 6300 at Duke Hospital, is one of nine DUHS' nurses named a Great Nurse.
Alene has been a nurse for 44 years and has spent the last 25 years in different roles at Duke.
"When I came to Duke, I started as a staff nurse in the Neuro-ICU," she says.
From there she became a clinical nurse specialist in Neurosurgery and also did discharge planning for a period of time. Then she became involved in pain management.
"I am primarily a nurse educator, now," she says. "I do some patient education and provide a lot of clinical resources for staff."
She says that one of the greatest things about nursing is that "you can do a lot of different things."
Alene says being a team leader for the Pain, Stress Management and Palliative Care Team is the most fun part of her job because she has such great team members.
Read more about the other eight DUHS nurses named to the Great 100 Nurses in North Carolina.