At Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Heather McNeal is known for her exceptional leadership as nurse manager of the surgical trauma intensive care unit.

Eve Milner is committed to helping her heart failure patients have the best quality of life possible.

For the 21st consecutive year, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is celebrating 10 of the region’s best nurses and one outstanding nurse leader.

The professional practice manager has helped to restore confidence and community to nursing at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Clayton Cooper, a nurse in the Emergency Department at Piedmont Athens Hospital, not only cared for a family suffering burns from a fire; he gave them a car.

Her mother died when she was 17. But the nurses who stood beside her family during those final months left an imprint that would shape the course of her life.

After decades helping patients, nurse clinician Jennifer Fleenor added a leadership role for a group of nurses that seeks to improve retention and best practices at Northside.

Diagnosed with diabetes at age 2, Henson guides patients through some of their most overwhelming moments, helping them see that a full, joyful life is still within reach.

Shirley Ifill saw firsthand what it took to be a nurse, then became one in her 50s.

Charge nurse creates meal support program for families at the bedside of their loved ones

The cardiovascular ICU nurse “sees the person behind the diagnosis and takes the time to understand their physical needs, fears, concerns and emotions.”

The surgical trauma ICU nurse manager created bereavement boxes of keepsakes to give to families of patients who don’t survive.

At Wellstar West Georgia in LaGrange, a former hospital vice president is changing heart failure care by helping patients secure housing, benefits and stability.