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A FRIEND OF HOSPICE
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La Crosse Tribune
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June 16, 2008
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- Olson, Larry
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Angela Strasser has been a hospice nurse with Franciscan Skemp Healthcare, La Crosse, since May 2007, but don't let this throw you. She's very much a veteran in a special realm of nursing that helps the patient - and his or her family - with the dying process.
Angela's dossier in health care begins after high school as a nursing assistant.
"This was a difficult job," she said, "but from it I believed that I could become a nurse. I wanted to help people, and be a good nurse." With a three-year associate degree from Western Technical College, her nursing career has taken her to Vernon Manor, Viroqua, Wis., to help improve patient status to independent living, to FSHC in Sparta, Wis., as ...