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Web site spotlight: Becoming a nurse to the world

Nurse Leader Weekly, June 16, 2008

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To nurses, it's more than a job. Nursing is a career. Sometimes, though, nursing becomes a lifestyle. The values of caring and compassion seep into every facet, every nook and cranny of your day. So much, in fact, that sometimes nursing can link someone from Alaska—someone like Catherine Miller—to a group of orphans in Ethiopia.

"This is just an extension of nursing," says Miller, RN, founder and president of Children of the World. "You want to care for people and this is just a different form of compassion."

This is Woliso, site of an orphanage Miller's organization runs that is home to 43 children in Ethiopia. This is a new roof her organization put on an orphanage in Liberia. This is also something that wasn't in the life plans for Miller.

"I never, ever intended it," she says.

But it's something that she couldn't imagine being without. It's something that has changed her view of the world.

"Ethiopia is an extremely poor country," says Miller, who is heading back to the orphanage this week. "If you've ever been to Kenya, South Africa, or Uganda, those [countries] are in much better shape."

Hardships are not hard to come by in Ethiopia. Simple, everyday luxuries are.

Editor's Note: This excerpt was adapted from the article, "Becoming a nurse to the world" featured in The Reading Room on HCPro's new online resource center, www.StrategiesForNurseManagers.com. Get a free trial membership that will give you 30 days to test drive all the exciting features on the Web site.

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