What an incredible story by The Missoulian about nurses’ connections throughout the world. The article tells the story of Michele Sare, RN, founder of Nurses for Nurses International, who arrived in Haiti on January 12with the purpose of teaching a local public health class. Less than an hour later, the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck, and Sare’s entire purpose for being there changed.

Sare spent the next week side by side with a small group of Haitian nurses.

“We did things I never thought I had the capacity to do,” Sare told the Misoulian. She said her experience furthered her understanding of how important it is to connect with nurses and create a nursing global community.

Sare returned home and spoke to nursing students on the University of Montana campus about her experience and the bonds she created with the other nurses. She is going back to Haiti in about three weeks to teach at the nursing school as originally planned-a task she considers vital as Haiti has only one nurse for every 10,000 residents.

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