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Nursing on a Construction Crew in Nicaragua
Author(s) -
Lynch Margaret A.,
Lenihan Mary I.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1988.tb00767.x
Subject(s) - crew , center (category theory) , nursing , medicine , geography , archaeology , chemistry , crystallography
Abstract In the winter of 1985, two Boston‐area community activists organized the Vecino Brigade iyecino is neighbor in Spanish) to build a health center in the town of Estelf, Nicaragua. The center is now the Eduardo Selva Clinic, serving this town of about 70,000 people. The authors, both registered nurses, traveled with the crew of 38 women and men as organizers of the group's health care and as unskilled construction workers. This article describes their experiences.