Celebrating her 50th year as a nurse, Marylin Dunstan, a nurse practitioner at the Jewell County Rural Health Clinic, has been practicing as a nurse practitioner for 21 years.

Dunstan received her nursing license from Trinity Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing in Kansas City. She received her nurse practitioner license from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, N.D. Dunstan said she wanted to be a nurse ever since she was a little girl. She became a nurse practitioner because she wanted to be able to do more. "I'm still a nurse at heart," she said. "That's the thing about being a...