Jackee Haak is the director of nursing for the Family Birth Center at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo. She is one of two nurses in the 2023 Sanford World Clinic Global Nurse Mentor Program.
“I’m so excited for this experience,” Carrie Henning said. “I’ve had so much support … with the nurses who participated last year, I’ve heard you’re just really forming a lifelong connection.”
Through a new Global Nurse Mentor Program, Sanford Health connected two nurse educators, Jackie Gibbons from Bemidji and Felipe Sanchez from Costa Rica, to work and learn together.
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While vaccinations stall out in the U.S. and South Dakota, Sanford Health is helping the world fight the ongoing pandemic.
Sanford World Clinic is helping train health professionals across nine countries and its 11 clinics as shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine make their way around the globe.
The renowned hospital system is transferring lessons and preparations on fighting the pandemic from its own halls to support clinics globally, focusing primarily on Costa Rica, Ghana and New Zealand at the moment, according to Sanford Health officials.
Most training is done from Sioux Falls. Using phone calls, video conferencing and sending out training materials to partner organizations, the clinics are getting prepared with a similar set of standards used right in the Sanford clinics and hospitals in South Dakota.