Nicaragua
Nicaragua Immersion Service Trip, 2018
During spring break in March 2018, a group of 14 nursing students and faculty from the Connell School of Nursing traveled to one of the poorest communities in Nicaragua to provide care to its residents and to learn more about that country's health care, social, and political systems. Videographers from the Office of University Communications accompanied the group and documented their experiences.
Student and faculty reflections
Senior Undergraduate Nursing Students
Mary Ladesic
“I have gained so much from this experience, even more then I have given…”
Lea Nelligan
“contrasting my experience as a nurse to other nurses and the differences in the healthcare systems”
Kaitlyn Patel
“finding places where social injustices occur and just how one person can make a difference…”
Graduate Nursing Students
Samantha Bondaryk
Family Nurse Practitioner Program
“It’s important to meet people where they’re at and try to leave behind your own expectations…”
Diane Quinones
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program
“Kids have such a great lens of looking at the world…”
Hannah Ruede
Adult/geriatric Nurse Practitioner Program
“You are given this opportunity to really enter into the life of another…”
Faculty
Rosemary Byrne, RN, MS, FNP-BC
“Your opportunity is just be…”
Sherri St. Pierre, MS, RN, PPCNP-BC
“sit as a group, process that and talk about it and support each other…”
Melissa Sutherland, Ph.D., FNP-BC
“What I see in the BC nurses is this commitment to humanity, this commitment to social justice…”