school stuff and FUN STUFF
School Related: I’ve been here a couple more weeks and have really started to get the hang of things here at the SON and in Baltimore. We’ve had a test in each of our classes and I feel I have a ......
View ArticleSo Many Colors!
The weather is cooling off, the holiday decorations are coming out, and the leaves are changing!!! I realize that for the majority of people reading this, the fall leaves are nothing to take special...
View ArticleHurricanes, Halloween, and a trip to the CDC!
Since I am from an area that frequently gets hit by hurricanes, I really didn’t think much of this “frankenstorm” Sandy heading towards the northeast last week. However, when classes starting getting...
View ArticleBirthday Celebration, Halloween and Parents Visiting!
So I know Simple Plan will tell you that “no one likes you when you’re 23″ but that has not been my experience thus far. Two weekends ago I celebrated by birthday with many new friends from the School...
View ArticleDowntime
It seems like this spring semester has been full of exams, clinicals, simulations and part time jobs. BUT, on the rare occasion that there is a spare moment of downtime, we like to make the most of it....
View ArticleSt. Croix in two days!
We just wanted to write a quick first post, representing the St. Croix Summer Accelerated '13 Public Health students. Eight of us are heading down to St. Croix with our faculty coordinator this...
View ArticleHere we are St. Croix!
We have arrived!! It is humid and hot, but it is also breathtaking and beautiful on this island. The people are friendly and welcoming. The flight wasn’t too bad since we connected in Miami. The...
View ArticleThe Chicago Parent Program: An Effective Tool for Low-Income, Urban Parents
As a child psychiatric nurse, my mission is to make a difference in the lives of families with young children, particularly those living in low-income, urban communities.
View ArticleWastewater Treat!
As I flushed the toilet Thursday morning, I did not feel the need to say, “Goodbye forever!” I simply told the porcelain bowl’s contents, “See you later!” I usually take indoor plumbing for granted,...
View ArticleWe’re here!!
Hello, everyone! So sorry we are just now writing our first blog for our Public Health trip to St. Croix! For the next ten days, Emily Sammis, Danielle Slatt, Marco Oldsman, Jerica Ladin, Marisa...
View ArticleOur Story Begins (Yours Is Next)
“Go play in traffic, kid.” It’s doubtful that my mother could have imagined in shooing away one of her seven children that the traffic in question would be at McElderry and North Wolfe streets in East...
View ArticleWhere have your nursing scrubs been?
Monday, September 30, 2013 As we wiped the sweat from our brows and inhaled the 360-degree panoramic view of the Haitian mountains, we thought to ourselves, “Wow, our scrubs pants just got a little...
View ArticleDay 7 and 8: We’re Just Getting Started and We Don’t Want To Leave!
Today was an eventful day. Four of us were at Flambouyant Gardens while the other four were at early head start and the Prince Street Residence within Ginger Thomas.
View ArticleRocking the Cradle or the Boat?
There was much that was good about the Summer 2013 issue of Johns Hopkins Nursing magazine, if I do say so myself. (I currently serve as its editor, so I do.) One was that it made deadline, for which...
View ArticleOutside the Box
Maybe, instead of positioning traffic cops at troublesome intersections, we should station Hopkins DNP grads. That stands for Doctor of Nursing Practice, not “do not proceed,” but these are the folks...
View ArticleWinded
The Armstrong Building sits downhill and slightly to the north of the Hopkins Outpatient Center. Between the two runs a pretty brick promenade that, when the old wind gets to whipping from west to...
View ArticleBienvenidos a Antigua!
It is hard to believe that there was a snow day today in Baltimore, while we are here in sunny Guatemala! Since the beginning, this trip has exceeded our expectations – from the views of the volcanoes...
View ArticleMoving Forward
We were a snow globe without the snow. The nine of us, among a crowd discharged from a Metro train beneath the Johns Hopkins Hospital, had been herded up two escalators and toward the revolving … thing...
View ArticleVideo Recap
Please enjoy below the highlights of our amazing trip with Guatemala Esperanza. Video credit goes to Ron Noecker, BSN RN Click here to view the embedded video.
View ArticleThe Way the Ball Bounces
Day after day, it was Vincent Liu, a tennis racket, a ball, and a wall — plus the determination to play a game he had grown to love from the sidelines. The taunts? The pain of polio? He could block ......
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