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\"nursing-2014-guatamala-02\"<\/a>From May 10 \u2013 17, The Leap, an initiative started by nursing students Katie Battani and Jenna Elliot, took a group of UTC Nursing students and faculty to Guatemala City.<\/p>\n

While in Guatemala, The Leap provided health education primarily to women and children, teaching topics like nutrition, proper hand washing, and dental hygiene. They were also able to take a donation of medical supplies to students pursuing medical degrees.<\/p>\n

\u201cHand washing education will solve a lot of problems, so for us, it wasn\u2019t just caring for a cut right now, it was teaching them to keep it from getting infected,\u201d said Battani.<\/p>\n

UTC students and faculty visited La Limonada, a city ghetto; the Guatemala City Dump, which serves as a ghetto for the severely impoverished; an orphanage for HIV positive children; a girls\u2019 orphanage; and a women\u2019s prison where inmates are permitted to keep their children with them until the age of four.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t hand out lots of medications, but that\u2019s the nice thing about nursing. It\u2019s not always giving someone a pill to fix their problems. That\u2019s what was brought home to these students,\u201d said Dr. Chris Smith ’97, Director of the UTC School of Nursing.<\/p>\n

\"nursing-2014-guatamala-03\"<\/a>Students and faculty rode a brightly painted \u201cchicken bus\u201d \u2013 an old Bluebird school bus \u2013 down a road that may have been little more than a dried up creek bed to get to the girls\u2019 rural orphanage. Approximately 50 girls from age 5 \u2013 16 live there. The group of students and faculty spent three days at the orphanage, where the girls were treated for worms and lice and educated about proper hygiene.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe taught them to brush their teeth and we used a glow substance and a black light to teach them proper hand washing technique. While they were in school, we washed all the sheets and did a purge, and when they came back we washed hair and combed lice,\u201d said Battani.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe orphanage also had a big desire for sex education,\u201d said Battani. \u201cMany of the girls there had been taken from their homes because of sexual abuse. The psychologist and Dr. Smith, who had been a sex education teacher, helped us develop a plan of care on the spot. With the younger girls we talked about good touch and bad touch and when to tell adults. With the middle-school aged girls it was more about the change. With the older ones we talked more directly about sex and respect for your body.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Leap group was also able to visit a women\u2019s prison where inmates are permitted to keep their children with them until the age of four. The prison features a screen printing factory to provide job opportunities to the women and a playground for the children. The UTC students and faculty were able to check on the children and answer any of the women\u2019s questions.<\/p>\n

\"nursing-2014-guatamala-04\"<\/a>\u201cIn America, we tend to have a black and white view and think that people in prison are bad. So this was a big gray area that gave them the chance to see these women as human beings,\u201d said Dr. Amy Levi, who serves as faculty leader for The Leap project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it opened our students\u2019 eyes to be able to sit with these women and hear their stories. The prisoners are very honest about what they\u2019ve done and how they got there. And for many of them, they didn\u2019t have many options. Their choices were gangs and prostitution. For some, prison saved them. The prison visit really shattered that idea of, \u2018I\u2019m a nurse and I only want to help people who deserve my care,\u2019\u201d said Battani.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a well-coordinated trip that went very smoothly. We took a lot of supplies, from vitamins to coloring books. It was an eye-opening trip that gave our students a greater understanding of the challenges women and children face in Guatemala City and the challenges of nursing in third world countries,\u201d said Dr. Smith. \u201cThings like this have to be student driven. The faculty are just facilitators, but when you have dedicated students like we\u2019ve had, it\u2019s pretty easy. I expected them to succeed, but they exceeded my greatest expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"nursing-2014-guatamala-05\"The future of The Leap is still in the planning stages, though Battani says they have already elected a new president for the coming year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t be at UTC forever, but I do plan to keep my hand in this for a while,\u201d she says.
\nThe Leap will do more international trips in the future, likely returning to Guatemala or other Latin American countries. However, they are also planning to do local outreach as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoving forward, we hope to do projects with the local Guatemalan and Hispanic population,\u201d said Battani. \u201cWe plan to emphasize preventative medicine rather than treatment all the time, and we hope to be able to do clinics in the future as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe aren\u2019t just doing a quick fix or a handout, we are educating people to take care of themselves. We\u2019re teaching a man to fish, not giving him one,\u201d said Dr. Levi.<\/p>\n

\"nursing-2014-guatamala-06\"The Leap is also in the process of becoming a club for nursing students at UTC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat will help provide man power for these local projects, as well as a great experience for students. Nursing can take you so many places other than just the ER, and I think experiences like these show that to students,\u201d said Dr. Levi. \u201cChattanooga has a large immigrant population, like many places in America, and this type of experience will help students meet those patients where they are and treat them as people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI see this as the beginning of something that we expect to be a consistent part of our nursing program,\u201d said Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From May 10 \u2013 17, The Leap, an initiative started by nursing students Katie Battani and Jenna Elliot, took a group of UTC Nursing students and faculty to Guatemala City.<\/p>\n

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