Nebraska Polio Survivors Association Event Details

Author Susan L. Schoenbeck, MSN, RN, "Kindness: What it is. What it is Not"

Event Date: Sunday, November 1, 2026
Event Time: 2 - 4 p.m. C.T. Free and Streaming Via Zoom

Author Susan L. Schoenbeck, MSN, RN, "Kindness: What it is. What it is Not" explains the difference between sympathy (You poor thing!) and empathy (How can I help?) Focusing on polio survivors who may be recipients of unkind remarks.

From her website: Susan L. Schoenbeck is a nurse educator with a background in critical care nursing, and leadership positions in continuum of care facilities. She has served as a Director of Nursing and a healthcare administrator. Her unique clinical presence is woven in part from her own hospitalization for polio and also through listening to grieving patients and their families in the role of clinical nurse specialist for death and spiritual care at a metropolitan university hospital. Schoenbeck continues to teach online in a Baccalaureate nursing program. Peer-reviewed national and international journals have published her research..  

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Author of: Polio Girl: It Only Takes One

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