The groups Shari Hughes Scott ’78 works with couldn’t be more different — children with chronic illnesses and registered sex offenders.

As a pediatric consult nurse, she teaches coping skills to children diagnosed with cancer or diabetes, but she also meets weekly with four therapy groups for men just released from prison and trying to get their lives on track.

The former is her everyday job at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, where she’s worked the last 6-plus years. The latter came about from volunteer work. But both are lessons to her about resiliency.

“Both groups go through struggles and need help to find the hope and courage they need in spite of their circumstances,” says Scott, a grad of TCU’s Harris College of Nursing.

Scott’s expertise and gentle hand have garnered her the honor of one of “DFW’s Great 100 Nurses,” selected by the Texas Nurses Association (Districts Three and Four) and the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Nurse Administration Forum.

“Nursing is arduous, difficult and stressful, but the return of experiences makes it worth spending your life on,” she said.