Nursing students make inaugural service trip to Nicaragua over break

Nursing students make inaugural service trip to Nicaragua over break
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"I've seen what it is like for people to be vulnerable in every sense - financially, mentally, and physically," said Courtney Pladsen, CSON '07. Reflecting on her recent medical service/immersion trip to Managua, Nicaragua, with nine fellow nursing students and three professors, Pladsen noted that after encountering the dire health conditions of the impoverished, she better understands the need for nurses to treat the patient as a whole person as opposed to focusing on the dealing with a localized injury. This was one of many lessons in both clinical nursing and social justice Pladsen and the other participants acquired during their stay in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere.

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