The Nurses of September 11th

Podcast: NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students · Jon Haws RN: Nursing Podcast Host, Critical Care Nurse, Nursing School Men

Opublikowano: 2026-09-10

Twenty-five years ago today, rows of gurneys stood ready outside St. Vincent's Hospital — and stayed empty. Most of you listening weren't born yet. So today: no study tips, no advice, nothing to sign up for. Just the stories that belong to this profession now — the hospitals that stood ready, the largest patient influx in American hospital history at a small downtown hospital, and the nurses we lost: Captain Kathy Mazza, the OR nurse turned Port Authority commander who shot out the North Tower's glass walls so hundreds could escape, found five months later beside the patient she refused to leav...