… 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 asthma, the director of clinical affiliations for the MGH Institute's School of Nursing spent a lot of time around medical … 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 …