… within a new career. But she never imagined the kind of success that would come. “I was going be a nurse practitionenr in the ICU and I was going to be happy doing … substantial. Today, she is the Chief Nurse Executive and Senior Vice President for Patient Care Services for the Duke University Health System , a system with … her master’s degree, she joined the hospital’s first oncology nurse practitioner team. Over the course of the next dozen years, McDonnell built her career at MGH, …