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March of Dimes Celebrates Partnership with Nurses During National Nurses Week
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National Nurses Week is May 6 - 12, 2006. For more than 60 years nurses have advanced the mission of the March of Dimes through their work.
One year after the founding of the March of Dimes in 1938, the organization began offering nursing grants and scholarships to those nurses interested in maternal and newborn health care practices. For more information on current nursing scholarships and continuing education opportunities, click here.
The Indiana Chapter is thankful and proud to have these nurses volunteering their time and expertise to the Prematurity Campaign. For a brief bio of each volunteer, please click on the names highlighted below.
Wabash Valley Division
- Dena Cochran
- Michelle Farris
- Dawn Kackley
- Terri Michl
- Michele Pantle
Southwest Division
South Central Division
Sagamore Division
Northern Division
- Kathleen Borkowski
- Michaela Nufer
Northeast Division
- Renell Leichty
- Jody Hill
- Lori Norton
- Sue Koop
- Linda Loy
- Carol Dinger
- Louise Busse
- Mary Kitson
- Teresa Purdy
- Bonnie Caroll
- Sally Hartman
Northwest Division
Central Division
- Tina Babbit
- Teri Conard
- Lisa Crane
- Lauri McCoy
- Diana Collins
- Cheryl Fielden
- Terry Falvey
- Chauna Holder-Edmond
- Jonell Allen
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"The problem of preterm births is getting worse," said Kathleen M. Campbell, President of Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN). "Preterm delivery is now the most serious problem facing obstetrics today. The members of AWHONN are pleased to continue to working with the March of Dimes to reduce the number of babies born preterm." AWHONN has been a partner of the March of Dimes Prematurity Campaign since it bagan in 2003.
For more than 60 years, the March of Dimes has partnered with nurses to improve the health of babies. Nurse volunteers were critical in the March of Dimes Polio Emergency Volunteer program.Nurse volunteers also played a significant role in the 1954 Salk Polio vaccine field trials, when more than 40,000 registered nurses volunteered their services. Today, nurses continue to give their time generously to help the March of Dimes in it's fight to save babies from premature birth, birth defects and infant mortality. |
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