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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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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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We Begin Our Journey to Haiti: How the ‘Pearl of the Antilles' Lost its Luster
June 11, 2009 12:03 PM by Valerie Newitt

I first sailed into Haiti on a little Brit ocean liner. It was nothing like the ones you see today... no water slides, casinos, spas or rock climbing walls. Just 500 passengers, a British-accented crew and an environment so innocent that the rooms had Read More...

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