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Article: Donna Lee Wong 1968-2008.(Guest Editorial)(Obituary)
- Article from:
- Pediatric Nursing
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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The word spread quickly throughout the nursing community, via friends, colleagues, e-mails, and listservs. On Sunday, May 4, 2008, pediatric nursing lost a great leader, Donna Lee Wong. Donna was diagnosed with leukemia in 2003. We knew from the start that her prognosis was poor. A bout with pneumonia was finally too much for her compromised immune system to bear, but not before she attended her daughter Nina's wedding, the day before Donna's final hospitalization.
Most of us knew Donna as the author of pediatric textbooks--Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children, Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing, and Pediatric Quick ...