An AIDS Nurse Takes Her Knowledge to Africa
Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by Collin Orcutt in Profiles
Maura Porricolo and the other mentors set the chairs up in a circle at St. Mary’s hospital in Durban, South Africa. Then, they spoke to and interacted with the 35 students who sat in them, students one step away from becoming “sisters,” the South African term for a nurse. The topic: disclosure.
Disclosure is the term for someone publicly declaring they have HIV. Porricolo and the sisters-to-be practiced with role-playing exercises about how to help their patients through such a monumental step in an area stricken by the AIDs virus.
