by Pritika Patel | Jun 9, 2017 | 2017, Blog
Doctors without Borders/Medicin Sans Frontiers is a well known international organization started in 1971 by French Doctors who wanted to provide medical care to “where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics,...
by Pritika Patel | May 26, 2017 | 2017, Blog
Deb Winters has been providing HIV clinical care since 1986. She is the Senior Nurse Advisor for I-TECH providing teaching, clinical mentoring and curriculum development that began in Ethiopia in 2003. Deb provided an overview of I-TECH’s Nursing and Midwifery...
by Pritika Patel | Apr 16, 2017 | 2017, Blog
A “First-in-a-Lifetime” Experience By: Nora Carr, BSN, RN For ten days this past March, I traveled to Grenada with a group of fellow nurse practitioner students and faculty members from Regis College. Nurses and students tend to naturally be inquisitive and as a...
by Monica Adhiambo Onyango | Apr 5, 2016 | 2016, Blog
by Barbara Waldorf BSN, MPH Throughout my career as a nurse, I have been “burned out” at various times. Along with the impulse to find spiritual freedom, this journey of burnout and creating resilience has brought me to learning and teaching compassion meditation for...
by Monica Adhiambo Onyango | Feb 23, 2016 | 2016, Blog
Sarah McAnaw, MPH(c), Siena Easley, MPH(c), Jackson Mesick, MPH(c), Paola Peynetti, MPH(c), Monica Adhiambo Onyango, RN, PhD **All the authors are affiliated with Boston University School of Public Health** Zika virus has arguably become the topic of discussion over...
by Monica Adhiambo Onyango | Jun 22, 2015 | 2015, Blog
The Value of And: Global Nurses Embrace the New Lancet Commission on Women And Health By Nancy Street, Lauren Ghazal, Maggie Sullivan, Elizabeth Glaser The interaction between gender and health is a complex one. While we typically conceptualize it in terms of the...
