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Joe the Nurse Makes East Coast Tour
October 1, 2009 10:12 AM by Valerie Newitt

If you live on the East coast and would like to meet Joe Niemczura, MS, RN, known affectionately on this blog as "Joe the Nurse," the time is almost at hand. This affable nursing instructor at the University of Hawaii - Manoa/Nepal nursing instructor/author Read More...

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'Shameless Plug' for RNs Who Deserve Your Attention
September 16, 2009 9:09 AM by Valerie Newitt

This is not the next "official" installment of this globetrotting blog. Next up in just a few days, as promised, will be more of the adventures of Joe "the Snake Man" Niemczura, MS, RN, in Nepal. Instead, this is just a shameless plug for a story that Read More...

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How do YOU say nurse?
August 6, 2009 3:48 PM by Valerie Newitt

Foreign languages are a way of traveling without leaving home. There are subtleties in language that can only be understood within the context of culture, words that cannot be precisely translated. It's a journey to some undiscovered syllabic territory. Read More...

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Miracles Happen! Haiti Graduates First BSN-Prepared Nursing Class
July 21, 2009 12:36 PM by Valerie Newitt

"Some people thought this would be a dinky little school," laughs Ruth Barnard, PhD, RN, former University of Michigan professor who, upon "retirement," accepted the challenge of helping to establish a BSN-granting nursing school on the island of Haiti. Read More...

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One Nurse Answers Haiti's Desperate Call
June 26, 2009 10:25 AM by Valerie Newitt

Mwen se infimye ou (" I am your nurse," Haitian Creole) Canadian Kyra Abbott, BScN, RN, grew up in the small town of Perth, Ontario, and now makes her home in the city of Ottawa. And while this Magna CumLaude graduate of the University of Ottawa could Read More...

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