Nurses—Making a Difference in Global Health
GOAL 4: Reduce child mortality
Read how nurses around the world are advocating for and helping achieve this goal.
Serving the Underserved in Laos
Rodelia Busalpa, RN, BSN, and family nurse practitioner (FNP) student, credits
Samuel Merritt College (SMC) with preparing her for a recent class trip to
Southeast Asia. She and a dozen fellow FNP students who attend SMC’s Sacramento
Regional Learning Center in Sacramento, Calif., went on a two-week mission
to local hospitals, orphanages and villages in and around Vientiane, the capital
of Laos. The students helped provide free health care for Hmong residents of
those villages. “The villages were very primitive. The traditional homes were
made out of bamboo and soil, with no floor, no compartments; everyone slept in
one room,” said Busalpa. “There was no electricity, no running water, kids running around
the village with no shoes. It’s just a different way of living. Many of us were
surprised to find people still live like this.” Read
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