CHOP Launches First Global Health Nursing Fellowship in Botswana
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Beginning in January 2023, neonatal nurses from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) will travel to Botswana to help train Botswana’s nurses in neonatology to improve the health of the country’s smallest citizens. In partnership with CHOP Nursing, CHOP Global Health Center, the Botswana-UPenn Partnership and colleagues in Botswana, this is CHOP’s first Global Health Nursing Fellowship.
Sally Poliwoda, MPH, BSN, will lead this program as Clinical Program Director of Global Health Nurse Fellows. Sally has an extensive clinical background and experience in program development and leadership. Over the course of her career, Sally has worked at CHOP as a staff nurse in the Cardiac Care Unit and as a staff nurse and Clinical Nurse Leader in the Emergency Department. Internationally, Sally has served as a nurse volunteer at St. Jude Hospital – St. Lucia, West Indies, and as a nurse leader with the CHOP Global Health Center for the Allies Program to Consuelo, Dominican Republic, and for a Pediatric Needs Assessment in Francistown, Botswana. Additionally, Sally has served as a Pre-Post-Operative Nurse Leader on the Surgical Care Team and as Quality Assurance Officer in the Quality Assurance Department for Operation Smile.
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Contact: Kaitlyn Tivenan, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 267-426-8614 or tivenank@chop.edu