… discovers that her care and compassion helped shape another future nurse For Joan Parise, MS, RN, ANP , nursing had always been a calling. Growing up with … as a nurse practitioner in advanced heart failure and transplant. What drew Parise to working with heart failure patients was the holistic approach it required. She … heart pressure and on Fridays, patients would have it removed. Sohmer happened to visit on one of those Fridays. Parise put a mask on Ellen at her father’s bedside and …