{"id":6831,"date":"2024-01-05T09:48:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T15:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2024-01-05T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T15:48:37","slug":"mom-and-daughter-celebrate-their-love-for-patient-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/2024\/01\/05\/mom-and-daughter-celebrate-their-love-for-patient-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom and daughter celebrate their love for patient care"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Kara Haworth, Nebraska Medicine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They found their passion in Respiratory Care. Kim Bobo and her daughter, Loni Waddell, share why working together in a field they love is so special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what patients have said to Loni Waddell <\/strong>during the years, after learning her mother is Kim Bobo. <\/strong>The mother and daughter duo are both trained as respiratory therapists and have enjoyed working for Nebraska Medicine together for eight years. Combined, they have more than 60 years of experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy mom and I may not work together, but our patients eventually see both of us at some point,\u201d says Waddell, who works with transplant patients in the OR at Nebraska Medical Center. Her mother works in Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation at Bellevue Medical Center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBack when I worked in the Pulmonary Function Laboratory, I would see inpatients and outpatients as they prepared for transplant,\u201d Waddell says. \u201cThen they’d see my mom in Pulmonary Rehab before and after transplant, and now I am seeing them in the OR for transplants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waddell, who has worked for Nebraska Medicine for nearly 19 years, encouraged her mom to apply here when she decided to move back to Omaha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am proud to work with my daughter and for Nebraska Medicine,\u201d says Bobo. \u201cI can\u2019t go anywhere with Loni where she doesn\u2019t run into former patients or co-workers. When Loni told me she was going to be a respiratory therapist, I was happy that she chose that career path. I knew she would do well and find, as I did, that it was the best career path I could have taken. It gives me a lot of joy and it is rewarding to see our patients get better and to be a part of that journey. People have said to me \u2018I love Nebraska Medicine. They saved my life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bobo is also very proud that the Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program at Bellevue Medical Center received certification from the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR). (The Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program at Nebraska Medical Center is also AACVPR certified.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a great team,\u201d Bobo says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have met so many awesome co-workers, patients and their families,\u201d says Waddell. \u201cIt’s rare for a hospital to offer so many different areas for an RT to work. This gives us the opportunity to broaden our skillset and utilize those in the next setting, in turn improving patient care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Kara Haworth, Nebraska Medicine They found their passion in Respiratory Care. Kim Bobo and her daughter, Loni Waddell, share why working together in a field they love is so special. \u201cThe apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree.\u201d That\u2019s what patients have said to Loni Waddell during the years, after learning her mother is Kim Bobo. The mother […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":6832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,46,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage","category-health","category-respiratory-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6833,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions\/6833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}