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Graduate student Tara Mendieta, a registered nurse, assisted the medical team that conducted the first organ transplant in Haiti. Today, she spreads the word about the lifesaving promise of being an organ donor.
It was an honor for me to be asked to participate in this firstof-its-kind operation,” says Tara Mendieta, a registered nurse and graduate student at the School of Nursing and Health Studies.
Most students start making headlines after graduation, but in Mendieta’s case, her advanced hands-on work with transplants at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) made her a perfect participant in Haiti’s first organ transplant. She also has a personal connection to the process.
“My husband has a transplanted kidney (he was born with bilateral hydronephrosis).…
Students from Ponce de Leon Middle School in Coral Gables, Florida visited the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies on November 6th, where accelerated-BSN students hosted a Mini Health Fair and Health Teaching…
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