A five-dollar bill will not buy you much these days. It might afford you a cup of coffee at Starbucks if your order is not too extravagant, or cover your portion of a pizza from Domino’s on a long night of […]

Alas, we have reached the last day of our adventures in Nicaragua! Sadly, we venture back to “los Estadios Unidos” tomorrow. But our last day sure was jam-packed with a busy schedule! After an early rise (per […]

On Thursday, we went to our last mobile clinic of our trip! We were fortunate enough to be located in an actual clinic, however we still lacked water and electricity and had to improvise a lot. During this clinic, […]

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Today is Thursday, August 9th 2017 and it is our third day here in Nicaragua! Unfortunately there was a bit of a delayed start on the blog, but we are up and running now! So our journey […]

Today was our last clinical day, and we spent it running a mobile health clinic. It ran super smooth as everyone knew where to be and when and how to perform their role. The group was completely in sync as a whole […]

What a lovely experience we had today! We started our day following the FIMRC nurse as she was conducting her prenatal visits with expecting mothers in the community. It was great to see women in the comfort of […]

Today has been an eventful one. Everyone set up and had the opportunity to work in various settings, which presented their own unique challenges. The students participating in the adolescent pregnancy group […]

Greetings, everyone! Firstly, we would like to thank all of you for taking the time to read our blog. We hope to update it as much as possible, so that we may share this journey with all of you—our family, f […]

WELCOME to our blog…. Our travel to El Limon Nicaragua begins in 4 days. Students are excited to  begin this service learning adventure and we look forward to sharing our journey as it unfolds over 10 days. All […]

We are back in the United States and it is full steam ahead for fall semester 2015. While our brains are filled with our to do lists for nursing classes, none of us can forget our experiences in Nicaragua. It h […]

Yesterday, some members of our group had the opportunity to observe a local pediatrician during her clinic hours at FIMRC. We saw a number of patients, including children recovering from pneumonia and those […]

Tuesday morning (08/12/15) we had the chance to work with a group of children called “Los Pipitos.” Those “Niños” have different forms of conditions that result in developmental problems, such as Cerebral Palsy […]

On our first work day we split up into several different groups and ventured out into the community. Three of us visited a local school and taught the importance of exercise to about sixty 3rd, 4th and 5th […]

Friday morning a group of us spent several hours at Los Pepitos, a facility for children with special needs. Every few days the kids can come and work with health professionals and volunteers to do physical […]

Today was an eye opening day for our group. We spent the morning in the Rivas Hospital observing in the OR. The differences between the facilities and healthcare here and in the U.S. were pretty apparent. The […]

Today our group went to the government clinic next to the FIRMC center to see how Nicaraguan nurses function in the country. Let me say, nurses run the show down here! There was no doctor on site, but the nurses […]

Day 1 in the Clinic: Sorted through thousands of dollars worth of donations that we brought into Nicaragua. Unfortunately, we were not able to get EVERYTHING into the country, as things got confiscated at customs. […]