Medical mission trips how to#

Medical mission trips how to#

“I know the first time that I saw the ultimate poverty I didn’t know how to function,” McBee said. McBee says serving the underprivileged is vital whether at home or in the developing world, but serving in a country with such destitution and corruption is a humbling experience. It definitely takes you out of your comfort zone because it’s unlike everything we have here.”

“ Just learning how to connect and interact with people who are quite different than I am is huge, and I feel like I’ve grown in that area. “These trips help me to see what patient-physician interaction is like,” Cabbage says.

She says the clinical experience and communication skills she has gained on these trips are unparalleled. Junior pre-med student Kara Cabbage has been to Haiti with the group twice and will return this May. “They get a lot of experience that’s very amenable to assessment skills, learning more about medication and the cultural aspects they learn are phenomenal.” “We want to see everybody we can, so we’ve got to use some of these students to do assessments and then that information goes to the nurse practitioner so they can actually do the treatment,” McBee says. Some advanced students even see their own patients. McBee says she strategically gives students clinical experience opportunities, which helps them gain confidence as they serve. They never see the human condition that everybody needs to understand is out there.” They get a small piece of that in our nursing program locally at places like KARM, but that is a few hours of a clinical day. “But they don’t see the culture of poverty and the vulnerable populations. If they go out of the country, it’s probably sandy beaches, ritzy hotels and good food,” McBee says. “Many of our students don’t see the world outside of their own little communities. Associate Professor of Nursing and trip organizer Sue McBee says the mission trip changes students’ perception of the world. Students on the trip will run medical clinics in four churches, a school and even a prison in Port au Prince. This marks the school’s seventh mission trip to Haiti. (April 23, 2015)- Nearly 20 Carson-Newman University students will go on a medical mission trip to Haiti to serve the underprivileged from May 8 to May 15. This year marks the University’s seventh mission trip to the country.Ĭlick to support Carson-Newman’s medical mission trips. Nursing student Mollie Meneley works with other Carson-Newman students during a past medical mission trip to Haiti.