UI Health Care nurses do amazing work for patients and families every day. Their vital contributions make a difference in the health and well-being of our communities.
We express our thanks for everything that our nurses do. Patients also recognize the important role that our nurses have. Every year, UI Health Care receives thousands of grateful comments about our nurses. Read some of the latest.
- Nurse Katie Prunchak, RN, BSN, collects a sample from a patient to test for COVID-19 at UI Health Care’s Holiday Road testing site.
- Brittany Patel, RN, ADN, CAPA, serves as the assistant nurse manager for the Children’s Prep/Recovery Unit at Stead Family Children’s Hospital.
- Angie Kipp, RN, BSN, helps patients as a nurse clinician in the UI Heart and Vascular Center.
- Jennifer Off, RN, BSN, OCN, temporarily stepped away from her work at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center to assist one of UI Health Care’s Urgent Care sites during the omicron surge.

Staff nurse Nearoth Peterschmidt, RN, BSN, provides care in the Neurosciences Intermediate Inpatient Unit.
- Nurse Janet Divelbiss, RN, BSN, prepares valve sizers during a pulmonary/tricuspid valve repair/replacement.
- Rachel Regennitter, AS, RN, tends to a newborn in the Labor and Delivery Unit.
Thank you for all you do! xoxoxoxo
Thank you to all of our nurses everyday! Have a wonderful Nurses Day!