Back to Haiti, this time to train…..

This past August, another team sponsored by Long Island University (School of Nursing) went back to Haiti. We were a team of 15 that included: Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Pharmacists a Physicians Assistant and a Nursing student. For 6 of us this was our second trip and some of us went mainly to  provide training and [...]

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Article about Haiti trip in Pharmacy Today

Copy and paste the following link into your web browser. http://apha.imirus.com/Mpowered/imirus.jsp?volume=pt16&issue=9&page=62

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Helping in Haiti – teamwork!

Title Experience by Sweta Chawla, PharmD Written by Monica Mehta, PharmD An elderly gentleman presented to clinic with an elevated blood pressure of 160/90 mmHg.  The nurse shouted across the clinic to me inquiring about hypertension medications.   Sifting through my shelves, I pulled out a bottle with a foreign brand name. By chemical name, [...]

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