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1. 1. Nurse spends vacation giving children smiles

   www.sunhealth.org/news_release - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/14/2003   Last Visited: 5/22/2003

   But Jan Crowder, R.N., C.N.O.R., isn't most people. She's a surgical nurse at Sun Health Boswell Memorial Hospital who spent hers literally putting smiles on the faces of children in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
   
   Crowder donated her two-week vacation to serve as part of a Rotoplast medical mission that corrected facial deformities in a number of children.
   
   She has worked as a nurse at Boswell for 20 years, 14 in surgery.
   
   "Going on a medical mission is something I've always wanted to do since I started in surgery," Crowder says. "The opportunity came and I jumped on it."
   
   During the two weeks, she and a surgical team of nine others performed a total of 64 procedures on young children and young adults.
   ...
   Coincidentally, Pat Plett, B.N.R.N., C.N.O.R., director of the Heart Center at Boswell Hospital, had given heart-shaped exercise balls to Crowder to relieve stress, but they actually became a useful gift for the little girl.
   ...
   Crowder indicated that the people in Cochabamba, the Rotarians and local hospital staff were really pleased with how well the mission went.
   
   "Everyone was just so loving and caring; I've never been hugged and kissed so much! It was hard to leave," Crowder says. "I certainly came back with a whole lot more than I gave."
   
   She's already planning ahead and has volunteered to return.
   
   "I would love to see how some of those kids are doing," she adds. "They're just beautiful."

2. 2. Nurse spends vacation giving children smiles

   www.sunhealth.net/news_release - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/14/2003   Last Visited: 5/21/2003

   But Jan Crowder, R.N., C.N.O.R., isn't most people. She's a surgical nurse at Sun Health Boswell Memorial Hospital who spent hers literally putting smiles on the faces of children in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
   
   Crowder donated her two-week vacation to serve as part of a Rotoplast medical mission that corrected facial deformities in a number of children.
   
   She has worked as a nurse at Boswell for 20 years, 14 in surgery.
   
   "Going on a medical mission is something I've always wanted to do since I started in surgery," Crowder says. "The opportunity came and I jumped on it."
   
   During the two weeks, she and a surgical team of nine others performed a total of 64 procedures on young children and young adults.
   ...
   Coincidentally, Pat Plett, B.N.R.N., C.N.O.R., director of the Heart Center at Boswell Hospital, had given heart-shaped exercise balls to Crowder to relieve stress, but they actually became a useful gift for the little girl.
   ...
   Crowder indicated that the people in Cochabamba, the Rotarians and local hospital staff were really pleased with how well the mission went.
   
   "Everyone was just so loving and caring; I've never been hugged and kissed so much! It was hard to leave," Crowder says. "I certainly came back with a whole lot more than I gave."
   
   She's already planning ahead and has volunteered to return.
   
   "I would love to see how some of those kids are doing," she adds. "They're just beautiful."