BREWER For nursing students living in some of Maine’s more rural regions, receiving education and training once required a lot of travel, with commutes often exceeding 45 minutes one way. A few years back, Northern Light Health partnered with Eastern Maine Community College on a satellite nursing program, and now a federal grant is helping that collaboration continue to build through increased access to simulation training at three rural Northern Light Health facilities in Hancock, Somerset, and Piscataquis counties.
Nurses at Northern Light Mercy Hospital do what they do best
Once again, it is the Year of the Nurse because in truth, it always is. Nurses saved lives before the COVID-19 pandemic and they continue to long after.
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Looking back on the past year, nurse Sarah Varney thought first about the strange locations where she worked: a parking lot at a basketball court, on the walkway outside of an apartment building, under a plastic, white tent, sweating in the summer, freezing in the winter.
Varney is the Director of Nursing Practice and Clinical Education at Northern Light Mercy Hospital. Not only were she and many colleagues in unfamiliar territory, they were carrying unfamiliar gear.