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Zig-Zag: Danish Guide Takes us to India to Meet Nurses from Ghana
January 4, 2010 9:35 AM by Valerie Newitt
Grab your passport! We're traveling across the Atlantic Ocean to pick up our guide -- guest blogger Malene Steen Nielsen Flagga of Copenhagen, Denmark. She will take us on an adventure to Vellore, India, to meet some nurses, many from the African nation 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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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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Nursing a Dream: RN Takes Can-Do Attitude to Haiti
July 1, 2009 5:27 PM by Valerie Newitt
Ruth Barnard, PhD, RN, was about as far away from Haiti as a person could get in her cold, blustery hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Newly retired from her professorship at the University of Michigan School of Nursing in 2000, she was ripe for a new challenge. Read More...
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