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Where kids can be kids

By Laura Raines
Pulse editor

Ask a nurse what she did on her summer vacation, and you may hear some amazing tales about camp. Every summer, Georgia nurses, doctors and other medical staff shed their lab coats and scrubs for tank tops and shorts.

They take vacation time, say goodbye to families and head to Rutledge to volunteer at Camp Twin Lakes, which is equipped to serve medically fragile and special-needs children. These health care practitioners are willing to dispense medications, handle health emergencies and volunteer as counselors so that patients with cancer, diabetes, asthma and other chronic diseases can do what other kids do in the summer: have fun. Full Article

Student 'Bodies'

By Laura Raines
Pulse editor

"Bodies: The Exhibition" offered thousands of people their first education about the anatomy of the human body during its six-month stay in Atlanta that was set to end Sept. 10. For graduate nursing students whose work is caring for and healing of the body, the lessons weren't new, but they were richer and deeply meaningful.

Colleen Burke, BSN, MSN, an August graduate of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing pediatric nurse practitioner program, spent three hours going through the exhibit on her first visit. Full Article

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