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Bermuda Triangle: Rock Fever, Hospital Refurb and Nursing Opportunity
November 12, 2009 3:38 PM
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Valerie Newitt
Dorothy had a rough passage, on the winds of a ferocious tornado, to get to her Technicolor land of Oz. I visited a destination similarly colorful last week -- coral-blushed Bermuda. My voyage was a little easier -- Royal Caribbean Line's Grandeur of
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Joe the Nurse Makes East Coast Tour
October 1, 2009 10:12 AM
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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
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How Joe the Nurse Became the Snake Man of Nepal
September 3, 2009 6:27 PM
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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
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Miracles Happen! Haiti Graduates First BSN-Prepared Nursing Class
July 21, 2009 12:36 PM
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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.
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