Ten nursing students are working with Hearts in Motion, a nonprofit organization that provides medical treatment in Central and South America.
Editor's Note: The following information was provided to Patch via a news release from Carroll University. A group of 10 Carroll University student nurses and their mentor, Linda Phillips, clinical assistant professor of nursing, left Sunday to travel to Guatemala for eight days. They have partnered with Hearts in Motion, a nonprofit organization that provides medical treatment in Central and South America. Phillips and one of the students, Brittany Reiland of Hortonville, Wis., conducted a research project in eastern Guatemala one year ago. That experience taught them that the greatest need of the many Guatemalans living in villages was for health-related information. The data they collected from three villages showed that locals often …
Two captains receive training from Waukesha Fire Department to teach back home in South America.
Firefighting captains Roger Sanchez Barzola and Rogers Sanchez Briones don’t have the luxuries that American fire departments have in terms of training, standards and governmental support. But through a non-profit organization, the two Ecuadorian firefighters were able to receive training at the Waukesha Fire Department on Tuesday to take back to the South American country. Touring Fire Station No. 1, the two firefighters kept close to translator Walter Merida, from the Chicago Fire Department, as they learned more about firefighting and paramedic rescue from our community fire department’s Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Johnson, who leads the training and emergency medical services in Waukesha. Eagle Firefighter Dennis Sudbrink, a 28-year …
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