{"id":1150,"date":"2020-01-09T21:47:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T21:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2025-02-07T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T21:46:07","slug":"dnp-candidate-helps-patients-at-liberia-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/09\/dnp-candidate-helps-patients-at-liberia-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"DNP Candidate Helps Patients at Liberia Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column1150_d15989-3b > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column1150_d15989-3b > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column1150_d15989-3b > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column1150_d15989-3b > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column1150_d15989-3b > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column1150_d15989-3b > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column1150_d15989-3b > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column1150_d15989-3b{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column1150_d15989-3b > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column1150_d15989-3b > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column1150_d15989-3b dynamic-main-col\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1150_0c7a65-e6, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1150_0c7a65-e6[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1150_0c7a65-e6\"]{font-size:1.5rem;line-height:30px;font-weight:500;font-style:italic;font-family:proxima-nova;color:#808080;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1150_0c7a65-e6 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1150_0c7a65-e6[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1150_0c7a65-e6\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1150_0c7a65-e6 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1150_0c7a65-e6[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1150_0c7a65-e6\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading1150_0c7a65-e6 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1150_0c7a65-e6\">Sigrid Marfo, a DNP candidate, is already a dedicated and successful certified registered nurse-anesthetist who shared her skills helping patients in a clinic in Liberia \u2014and also met the president of the West Africa nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe is interested in improving health outcomes across the continuum and taking her skills to the next level, particularly in Epidemiology and Population Health,\u201d said Dr. Aaron Sebach, chair of the Doctor of Nursing Program. \u201cHer work in Liberia allowed her to put the concepts she learned in class into practice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marfo worked with volunteer doctors and nurses to treat patients who required surgery and was the sole anesthesia provider in the clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full size-medium wp-image-1151\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.test.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/President-Weah-and-other-government-officials-pose-with-visiting-US-Doctors.jpg\" alt=\"President Weah visits with Operational International participants. Photo: Executive Mansion, Republic of Liberia\" class=\"wp-image-1151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/President-Weah-and-other-government-officials-pose-with-visiting-US-Doctors.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/President-Weah-and-other-government-officials-pose-with-visiting-US-Doctors-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>President Weah visits with Operational International participants. Photo: Executive Mansion, Republic of Liberia<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While she was in Liberia, she met President George Weah, who visited Marfo and other healthcare providers who participated in the Operation International medical mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The College of Health Professions also organizes medical trips to the Dominican Republic and Kenya each year to help people who don\u2019t have ready access to care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe now have a doctoral nursing student from Kenya who met our facility and students when they were there and became interested in our program,\u201d Dr. Sebach said.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigrid Marfo, a DNP candidate, is already a dedicated and successful certified registered nurse-anesthetist who shared her skills helping patients in a clinic in Liberia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-nursing-and-health-sciences"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"ACADEMIC NEWS"}],"post_tag":[{"value":8,"label":"College of Nursing and Health Sciences"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rebecca Slinger","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/author\/rebecca\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","slug":"academic-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":559,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":460,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":460,"category_description":"","cat_name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","category_nicename":"academic-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":8,"name":"College of Nursing and Health Sciences","slug":"college-of-nursing-and-health-sciences","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":565,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":110,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15315,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/15315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}