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NSWB provides health education to Guatemalan women

Nursing Students Without Borders (NSWB) of VCU recently returned from a community service trip to Guatemala, where members provided health education to women villagers. Nine students, accompanied by Mary Falk, M.S.N, RN, CCRN, PCCN, CNL, clinical instructor, spent the week working with indigenous Mayan women who are training to be nurse midwives. The group conducted […]

NSWB provide health education to Guatemalan women

Nursing Students Without Borders of VCU (NSWB of VCU) recently returned from a community service trip to Guatemala, where they provided health education to women villagers. Seven students, accompanied by Mary Falk, M.S.N, RN, CCRN, PCCN, CNL, clinical instructor, traveled in conjunction with the Highland Support Project and were paired with the Association of Mayan Women […]

Recent graduate Katherine Connell featured in article on VCU News Center

School of Nursing alumna Katherine Connell (B.S.’15/N) and Nursing Students Without Borders (NSWB) were recently featured on the VCU News Center in an article about VCU students’ international service trips. The article highlighted Connell’s visit to Guatemala in 2014 as part of NSWB’s joint humanitarian aid trip with the Highland Support Project, a Richmond, Virginia-based […]