She has a long-standing passion for the way healthcare providers attend to children who die and their families but when her neice delievered a full-term stillborn son in 2004 that her passion for the well-being of children was expanded to the unborn child as well. Her clinical practice changed to considering more details from the prenatal history when evaluating newborns and children in her clinic and she believes that improved prenatal care can impact the health status of children in profound ways. Dana received her nursing degree from West Nebraska General Hospital School of Nursing (now University of Nebraska School of Nursing in Scottsbluff, NE) and her graduate degree in Pediatric Nursing from University of Colorado Health Sciences, Denver, CO. She regularly lectures to nursing and medical students on pediatric assessment.