Under the guidance of their upper-class counterparts, sophomores taught health education at the McGivney Center. Then they can see how they want to live their lives as a result of those exposures. As a clinical laboratory for undergraduate and graduate students, today the Center gives experience to all nursing majors, with more than 10,000 individual contacts made per year. In 1991, she journeyed to Haiti for two weeks with Campus Ministry director, Fr. We work side by side with the people as part of a project.
Homelessness is all grays.
To expose both undergraduate and graduate-level nursing students to situations like the ones Mission Volunteers confront, MacAvoy developed a course, Health in Rural Appalachia , and began leading trips over spring break to Morehead, Kentucky, a rural Appalachian community in the eastern part of the state. There, students join with public health nurses to minister to rural and often poor families. MacAvoy has witnessed a rise in student commitment to the underserved, and a growing appreciation of diversity. In 1993, the first year of the Homelessness course, nine students enrolled. I've learned to accept that it takes a while.