Intercultural Nursing, Inc. & Northeastern University (Trip to the Dominican Republic, Spring 2009)

         Intercultural Nursing, Inc (INI) is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1985.  It provides an opportunity for nurses and other healthcare professionals to live and work with the sick and poor in the lesser developed Caribbean nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.  The experience provides growth in many areas including personal, professional and spiritual parts of the being.  It is a two or three week program that is offered three times a year in January, May, and November.  INI first began working in Haiti due to the great need.  Health care professionals work alongside missionaries in a variety of settings.  In 1988, INI was invited to the Dominican Republic.  In the DR healthcare professionals work with other volunteers as well as the Dominican Department of Health.  While providing hands-on care at various clinical sites, healthcare professionals also work with Dominican nurses and health promoters sharing ideas and information.  A group of students and faculty members from Northeastern University and volunteer nurse practitioners from the Boston community travel to the DR yearly in the spring to provide healthcare.  

NAPNAP'S 28TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA

Poster Presentation: Reach Out and Read into Health Careers through Group Mentoring

A group of graduate pediatric nurse practitioner students from Northeastern University presented a poster about their clinical project that had a two-fold purpose of reducing an identified health disparity, the literacy rate of urban children at risk while addressing the current shortage of nurses trough fostering early enthusiasm for health professions. By combining the goals of two national endeavors, Kids into Health Careers (KIHC) and the National Reach Out and Read Literary (ROR) Initiative, a small group of graduate students paired with undergraduate students in a year long community project to read weekly to students from preschool to college in a group mentoring approach. This research project was lead by Michelle Beauchesne, the Coordinator of the PNP program.

Pictured from Left to Right: Marketa Rejtarova, Colleen Cunningham, Maria DiCenso, Kristen Wilson, Denise Casey, Kerri Cushing and Michelle Beauchesne.

NAPNAP ANNUAL AWARDS BREAKFAST

Michelle Beauchesne, DNSc, RN, CPNP was the recipient of the AFPNP 2007 Excellence in Nursing Educator Award.