Higher calling, personal faith serve as sources of resilience for Haitian nurses in challenging environment, study says By Lisa Aubry - April 19, 2021
One of the hospitals in Haiti, where LLU School of Nursing researchers traveled to conduct their recently published research.
A team of faculty and a PhD student at Loma Linda University School of Nursing discovered how nurses working in Haiti managed to sustain resilience and display exemplary dedication towards patient care amid difficult working conditions. Haitian nurses see nursing as more than a job, but rather a “divine calling” that yields a deeply ingrained sense of purpose. The Journal of Christian Nursing published the study, “Dedication in a Difficult Context: Faith-Based Nursing in Haiti,” earlier this month.
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Faculty and students from Loma Linda University School of Public Health have been monitoring possible COVID-19 exposure by testing wastewater on the school campus in Loma Linda, California, United States.
Ryan Sinclair, professor in the School of Public Health, has applied Wastewater Based Epidemiology (WBE) as an innovative method of surveillance. Wastewater monitoring has been used historically to track enteric viruses and other pathogens, including the poliovirus vaccine and wildtype strains, norovirus, and others, and drugs such as opioids, but at generally smaller scales.
The WBE method has been shown to provide a four- to ten-day early warning on impending COVID-19 outbreaks. Through this method, Sinclair and his team of students can detect a single infected individual among hundreds of dorm students.
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