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Holland America nurse explains the scope of clinical practice at sea
October 29, 2009 9:55 AM by Valerie Newitt
Nursing takes on new "heights" for those who choose to practice the profession at sea. Imagine climbing into a basket lowered from a helicopter hovering over a ship in mid-ocean. Up and away, and you're in the copter. The basket is lowered again, this Read More...
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Laura the Holland America Cruise Nurse Ties the (Nautical Marital) Knot
October 14, 2009 5:14 PM by Valerie Newitt
Last time we saw Laura Vlaadingerbroek, MSN, RN, she was serving as chief medical officer aboard Holland America Lines' luxurious ms Zaandam . All the while she was living -- and loving --the good life, while traveling to exotic ports-of-call. Then she Read More...
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How Joe the Nurse Became the Snake Man of Nepal
September 3, 2009 6:27 PM by Valerie Newitt
On his first nursing mission to Nepal in 2007, Joe Niemczura, MS, RN, wondered how he would make his mark on the indigenous people. "I wasn't there to do the nursing, I was there to teach the locals what they need to do," he explains. But as he arrived 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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