{"id":2480384,"date":"2025-08-29T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nurse-manager-put-herself-in-harms-way-to-help-scared-young-victim-of-catholic-school-shooting\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:56:20","slug":"nurse-manager-put-herself-in-harms-way-to-help-scared-young-victim-of-catholic-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nurse-manager-put-herself-in-harms-way-to-help-scared-young-victim-of-catholic-school-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse Manager Put Herself in &#8216;Harm&#8217;s Way&#8217; to Help Scared Young Victim of Catholic School Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnurse-manager-put-herself-in-harms-way-to-help-scared-young-victim-of-catholic-school-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2480384&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A health care supervisor at hennepin Healthcare went beyond her usual duties to comfort victims of the Annunciation Catholic church shooting, where two children were killed and several others wounded. Trauma surgeon Dr. Jon Gayken described how a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-health-officials-pause-jj-vaccinations-amid-adverse-reactions\/\" title=\"Ga. health officials pause J&amp;J vaccinations amid adverse reactions\">nurse manager<\/a> accompanied a frightened child through a CT scan, exposing herself to radiation to provide comfort during the procedure. The incident occurred after the shooting at the church,where transgender shooter Robin Westman opened fire during Mass before taking his own life. Hennepin EMS Chief Marty Scheerer highlighted many acts of heroism, including children protecting their peers as the violence unfolded. Teachers and older students shielded younger children, with a buddy system in place that helped guide and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-walks-back-bidens-promise-to-open-schools-in-100-days-some-teaching-in-classrooms-at-least-one-day-per-week\/\" title=\"Jen Psaki Walks Back Biden\u2019s Promise To Open Schools In 100 Days: \u2018Some Teaching\u2019 In Classrooms \u2018At Least One Day Per Week\u2019\">protect students<\/a>. Annunciation Catholic School Principal matthew DeBoer credited these rapid, brave actions with saving lives and greatly reducing the potential tragedy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A health care supervisor went above and beyond the call as victims of the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting came to the hospital, according to one doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Trauma surgeon Dr. Jon Gayken of Hennepin Healthcare recalled one incident in the aftermath of a shooting the left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/video-demonic-trans-shooter-rampaged-faithful-big-kids-protected-little-ones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two children dead<\/a> and multiple children and adults wounded.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One of the victims came in and in the emergency department &mdash; this was a nurse manager from another unit, didn&rsquo;t have anything to do with what we would normally respond to &mdash; and one of the children were very scared and alone, because everybody was running about doing their jobs,&rdquo; Gayken said Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hennepin Healthcare to provide update on Annunciation Church shooting victims\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rIFFjCiq9PY?start=648&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;And she went into the CT scanner with the patient, putting herself basically in the harm&rsquo;s way of radiation, which normally we would evacuate the room,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); 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he added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Those are the types of things we witnessed yesterday,&rdquo; Gayken said.<\/p>\n<p>Hennepin EMS Chief Marty Scheerer said there were many &ldquo;unrecognized heroes&rdquo; Wednesday, including children of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/deep-dive-eight-disgraceful-ways-nyt-fraudulently-covered-trans-school-shooter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annunciation School<\/a> who protected other children when transgender shooter Robin Westman began firing into the church while the children were at Mass, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/minnesota-hospital-staffer-joined-shooting-victim-ct-scanner-so-she-didnt-have-go-through-alone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Westman later killed himself.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I might be saying too much, but we had one kid that covered up another kid and took a shotgun blast to his back and things like that, and they were helping each other out,&rdquo; Scheerer said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The teachers were amazing. The teachers were getting shot at. They were protecting the kids,&rdquo; he said, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/28\/nx-s1-5521340\/kids-children-heroism-church-shooting-minneapolis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Annunciation Catholic School Principal Matthew DeBoer said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/catholic-school-shooters-uncle-ex-lawmaker-fought-bans-transgender-procedures-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lives were saved<\/a> by the unsung heroes who emerged as bullets flew.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Adults were protecting children, older children were protecting younger children,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It could have been significantly worse without their heroic actions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Parent Michael Burt, whose family has five children at the school, said a buddy system that was part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >school culture saved lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So for instance, seventh graders get, say, a third and a first grader, and they walk to church, school Mass, with each buddy [holding] a hand, and they sit next to them in church, teach them how to do church,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>As gunfire erupted, he said, older students knew what to do.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The first action by those middle schoolers was to push their buddies down under the pew,&rdquo; Burt said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Which is why the middle schoolers were the ones that were standing the longest and were largely the injured, acting in heroism&hellip; and then covering the little ones under the pews.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Trauma surgeon Dr. Jon Gayken from Hennepin Healthcare described an event following the shooting that killed two children and injured several others. He recounted how a nurse manager from another unit, not typically involved in emergency responses, comforted a frightened child by accompanying them into the CT scanner-exposing herself to radiation risk-to ensure the child was not alone during the procedure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2480385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-29T112504.651.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[62118,35224,41892,62256,62257],"class_list":["post-2480384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-catholic-school-shooting","tag-emergency-response","tag-heroic-act","tag-nurse-manager","tag-youth-support"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-29T112504.651.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480393,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480384\/revisions\/2480393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2480385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}