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Vol. 19, No. 6
October 26, 2022
Shelter pg. 8
Sports pg. 14
SKC students prepare to help in Greece Story and Photos by Taylor Davison Valley Journal
Big Medicine pg. 16
PABLO — Three students at SKC are making a name for themselves by creating an opportunity within the nursing school for students to get hands-on experience overseas. Part of the Global Brigades initiative, third year nursing students Melissa Oden, Michelle
Zempel, and Stephanie Robinson will lead a local cohort of 12 students lending medical help in Greece this July. Not only will the three be some of the first graduates of SKC’s new fouryear direct admit BSN degree program, but they’re also the first to have initiated a project like this for the nursing program. The three got their start with Global Brigades after finals w w w.va l le yj our na l.net
week of the last quarter. The company had reached out looking for volunteers to join a fully funded medical brigade to Honduras that needed more people. They were the only ones who responded and in July they were sent off to South America. “We jumped on it,” Oden stated. “It was such an incredible experience that when we got home, we were like ‘we have to
do something like that again.’” The students started their own chapter of Global Brigades for SKC at the start of the school year. They then reached out to Global Brigades see what countries they could be sent to that would work with the school year timeline. This summer, the initial three volunteers, (now co-presidents of the SKC chapter of
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