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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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Nurse at Sea: How One RN Found Career and Love on Holland America Cruise Ship
October 2, 2009 9:28 AM by Valerie Newitt
It started out as a career shift, but ended up as The Love Boat for Laura Vlaardingerbroek, MSN, RN, lead medical officer aboard the ms Zaandam. From that mouthful of a last name you may have guessed: This American RN from Wisconsin married a Dutch officer Read More...
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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 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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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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