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From Nigeria’s Cholera Epidemic: An NP Reports Back


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Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP
Guest: Maryana McGlasson

Nurse practitioner Maryana McGlasson waited for months to find out if she would be selected to work with the Doctors without Borders Program. Once she was notified, she had three days to hop on a plane and get to Nigeria, where she would be one of a handful of nurses dealing with hundreds of patients with cholera. She shares her inspiring story with host Mimi Secor on why she decided to become a Doctors without Borders volunteer and what it's like to treat patients with this highly contagious cholera in a tent city lacking even reliable electricity.

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Global MedicineBy ReachMD