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Our Staff
Mary Freisleben, RN, BSN
Nurse Educator
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"There's so much health information out there now," says Mary Freisleben, RN, BSN. "People are overwhelmed - they don't know what to do next." Mary is a nurse educator at Small Stones, a health resource center developed by Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin. She says she wants to make sure people leave Small Stones knowing exactly what to do next.
Mary says her job at Small Stones is to listen to visitors, find out what their concerns are and help them find ways to reach their goals. She stresses the importance of providing several sound alternatives for practical action. |
 | “The more options you give, the better able the person will be to pick out what can work. I want people to say, ‘I know I can do this.”Mary discovered her affinity for this practical approach to healthcare while she was a student at Marquette University completing a rotation in public health. "I really liked going to people's neighborhoods, getting into their homes, and finding the barriers that kept them from being healthy."
Kathy Steele, RN, BSN
Nurse Educator
| As a nurse educator at Small Stones, Kathy Steele, RN, BSN spends a lot of time doing what she enjoys most – helping people one-on-one. "When a person comes in who is distressed by a health concern and I am able to help that person at that moment, that's what I like best about my job." |
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In the course of her career, Kathy has worked as a hospital staff nurse, a visiting nurse and a childbirth educator. More recently, she gained experience in the field of workplace health. Now that her two sons are grown, Kathy loves volunteering and has done mission work in Guatemala and several southern states.
Kathy says the mission of Small Stones is to provide people with credible health and wellness information from credible sources. Many visitors to the store come in fresh from a diagnosis and hungry for information on their condition. Other people are looking for ways to support friends and family members who are ill. One woman recently dropped by with her lab work. "She wanted to know what all the abbreviations meant." Kathy went over the lab results with her line by line.
"We can answer 99 percent of all questions on the spot," says Kathy. "When we can't find an answer here, we turn to the experts at Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin."
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