2012 Scholarship Recipients
Staci Swan, RN
Empowering Vietnamese Nurses Staci Swan, RN just returned from Vietnam after traveling with the organization Good Samaritan Medical Dental Ministry. The organization as a whole does mission work in rural Vietnam, but this particular aspect of their mission is to promote emergency medicine in Vietnam and helping the medical community develop this as a true specialty. Staci taught [...]
Robin Phillips, RN
“Yo tengo un Amigo que me Ama” “In my lifetime I have experienced few days that I recall as life changing. Monday, March 19, 2012 was a day I will always remember and be forever grateful. The day, location, and mission affected me profoundly and are permanently engraved on my heart. I was a member [...]
Rob Swan, RN
Different Experiences, but Still Equal Rob Swan, RN returned from his volunteer trip to Hue, Vietnam with Good Samaritan Medical Dental. Rob helped teach a multi-module trauma and emergency medicine course to Vietnamese nurses of all specialties who are interested in moving into emergency medicine. Below is Rob’s account of his experiences while in Vietnam: “We were [...]
Mary Hogan, RN
Mary Hogan graduated with her nursing degree from Wake Technical Community College in 2003. During nursing school she worked as a nurses aide on mother-baby and post partum unit. After graduation Mary worked on a medical teaching unit, which was a combination Medical, Renal, Urology and Surgical floor. During her 10 years in this department, [...]
Liza Leukhardt, RN
Liza Leukhardt decided to become a nurse 20 years ago after caring for her three year old daughter during two years of chemotherapy for childhood leukemia. Having already worked as a newspaper reporter, elementary school teacher and theater costumer, Liza views nursing more as a ministry than a career. For the past twenty years she [...]
Ken Lobe, RN
“Stop and Drink the Chai!” This February I had the opportunity to be part of a medical team which was organized by e3 Partners to go to India. We focused on two areas, first Pathankot, Punjab, where we went to smaller villages for out-patient clinics. Second, we had a clinic at a UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) [...]
Jeanie Fry, RN
“I Will Always Go Back to Haiti, a Piece of My Heart is There” “This was my fourth trip to Haiti, and it is always such a culture shock when I come home. When you first get there, it all seems so different, but by about the third day it just becomes your reality. Before [...]
Emily Sorman, LPN
I graduated from nursing school in my home state of Minnesota in 2009, then worked in Hawaii for a year and a half. I moved to Seattle in 2010, and I now consider it home. I will be applying for LPN to RN programs this summer. I volunteer regularly at my local food bank. I [...]
Emily Davis, RN
I have known since I was thirteen that I have wanted to be a nurse. It’s now been almost 10 years since that dream came true. After graduating from the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, OH with my BSN, I have spent my entire nursing care in pediatrics but in very different avenues. [...]