title: Reaching beyond the familiar.
abstract: Sue Thomas Hegyvary built a rich and rewarding life as a nurse-scientist, educator, administrator, author, wife and mother, achieving appointment as dean of the University of Washington School of Nursing at 42. When an accident changed her life, she demonstrated the same remarkable resilience she had shown many times before when faced with challenges.
authors.affiliation: US Navy Nurse Corps, USA.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chaffee
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000266:history*; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States