{"id":168,"date":"2010-02-02T13:04:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.103.127\/health\/2010\/02\/02\/belmont-nursing-grad-serves-aboard-the-usns-comfort-in-haiti\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T13:16:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T19:16:48","slug":"belmont-nursing-grad-serves-aboard-the-usns-comfort-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2010\/02\/02\/belmont-nursing-grad-serves-aboard-the-usns-comfort-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmont Nursing Grad serves aboard the USNS Comfort in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weartv.com\/newsroom\/top_stories\/videos\/wear_vid_6287.shtml\">WEAR ABC3 in Pensacola, Florida<\/a>. . . .<br \/>\nA second wave of sailors bound for Haiti deployed from Pensacola Naval Hospital Wednesday.  The group will be providing care to quake victims on a state-of-the-art hospital ship called the U.S.N.S. Comfort.  Lieutenant Junior Grade Lauren Hudson shouldn&#8217;t be on this trip. She has already deployed once this year, but for this special mission, she asked to be a part of it.  Hudson is a 2007 graduate of Belmont University&#8217;s School of Nursing.<br \/>\n&#8220;I felt kind of an emotional connection to Haiti because I had been there before, and I really just wanted to do something to help.&#8221;  In fact, a sense of purpose fills many of the 25 people loading a bus for Jacksonville. From there, they&#8217;ll meet up with 10 other Pensacola sailors on board the U.S.N.S. Comfort, a floating hospital tasked with caring for the earthquake survivors.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty amazing what it can do and how many people it can hold.&#8221;  The 1,000-bed ship will carry more than 500 staff members, 35 of which will be from Pensacola. A team that commanders say includes many volunteers.  &#8220;Our corpsmen are superior, bar-none, so we have a great team. And I look forward to the mission.&#8221;  They&#8217;ll each have their own way of dealing with the devastation around them.  &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you can ever be totally prepared for this.  You just kind of got to stop yourself from over-thinking and stop, take a deep breath.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe bus is loaded with 25 people heading over to Haiti, but that&#8217;s only a fourth of what&#8217;s deployed around the world from Naval Hospital Pensacola.  A round of applause for the latest departing staff, and the hopes for a successful mission.  The sailors were not given a definite timetable for a return home. We&#8217;re told it could take anywhere from one to six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WEAR ABC3 in Pensacola, Florida. . . . A second wave of sailors bound for Haiti deployed from Pensacola Naval Hospital Wednesday. The group will be providing care to quake victims on a state-of-the-art hospital ship called the U.S.N.S. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2010\/02\/02\/belmont-nursing-grad-serves-aboard-the-usns-comfort-in-haiti\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-nursing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}