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- Title: Post Katrina: The Story of the LSUHSC School of Nursing (Quick Reads) (Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center)
- Author : Nursing Education Perspectives
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 200 KB
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LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER (LSUHSC) SCHOOL OF NURSING HAS A REMARKABLE STORY TO TELL. Hurricane Katrina blew through New Orleans in August 2005, followed by a breach in the levees that effectively destroyed 80 percent of our beloved, zany city. As the world watched in horror, people abandoned their homes, their work, and all that constituted normal life. * Post Katrina, it has taken extraordinary effort by many people to regain some elements of normalcy for a city that is by no means repaired and restored. This article tells how, in those early days after the hurricane, nursing education kept on course within the LSUHSC system and how, surprisingly, the catastrophe provided a unique opportunity to plan a refashioned school of nursing. Making Do in Baton Rouge Although all LSUHSC buildings in New Orleans were forced to close for repairs, the six schools of the health sciences centers reopened on September 26, 2005, at our Baton Rouge flagship campus. Ninety-six percent of our students showed up. In efforts to educate our students in Baton Rouge and on other campuses across the state, logistics were daunting. LSU set up a telephone call-in service and established a website that had 2.5 millions hits within days. The Pete Maravich basketball stadium on the Baton Rouge campus was converted into a MASH unit. Staffed almost entirely by volunteers, it briefly became the largest acute care hospital in the country, processing 6,000 patients and triaging 15,000 others with special needs.
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