UMaine nursing students plan mission to Belize

ORONO, Maine Twelve University of Maine nursing students, a recent nursing graduate as well as a faculty adviser are raising money for a open health, service-learning mission with underprivileged families in as well as around a city of Belize in Central America during spring break.Undergraduates, members of a University of Maine Student Nurses Association, will be accompanied by UMaine School of Nursing lecturer as well as helper Susan Wheaton. They will work Feb. 27 through March 6 with medical teams in Belize. The program is coordinated by a International Service Learning organization, a nongovernmental organization which has offering medical service volunteer programs given 1993 in Central as well as South America, Mexico, a Caribbean as well as Africa.After orientation as well as field training, a UMaine students will set out in teams for towns as well as villages in Belize to conduct community illness surveys to assess illness services needs among villagers. Residents identified as in need of medical caring will be invited to a clinic staffed as well as supervised by licensed medical professionals. Students will rotate through patient intake, triage, examination, diagnosis, treatment as well as pharmacy stations.Expenses for a trip are estimated during more than $2,000 per student, pronounced Nancy Fishwick, executive of a UMaine School of Nursing. Students have set up a website http://umainenursinginbelize.blogspot.com for blog posts as well as tracking fundraising.Being able to transport with nursing students to areas in need of illness caring will provide this opportunity of growth both personal and, more importantly, as a nurse, Wheaton pronounced in a recent blog post. If you can support these nursing students you will be partial of an extraordinary journey. Everyone during some point needs a special caring of a nurse.A passion for open illness as well as justice in illness caring fuels her interest in a project, pronounced Spanish-speaking Allison Doe, a fourth-year nursing tyro from Bowdoinham. Doe formerly volunteered exclusively during an Ecuadorian pediatric hospital, with a Chilean Red Cross as well as with migrant workers in Down East Maine.Traveling to Belize will be a wonderful opportunity for a mutual guidance knowledge [for] a travelers as well as a communities we will be serving, Doe pronounced in a blog post. The students hope this will be a first of ongoing annual visits to Belize.For information, call 423-0193 or 581-2594.

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