Tag: Sickle Cell Boot Camp

Sickle Cell Boot Camp, Outreach Efforts Educate Hundreds of Frontline Providers

Written by Leigh Ann Roman

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Sickle Cell Boot Camp participants and organizers pose for a group photo in front of the University of Tennessee Health Sciences stone arches on campus in Memphis.

Dr. Sara Day developed a passion for the care of patients with sickle cell disease when she was a young nurse at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She has transformed that passion into education, garnering nearly $900,000 in grant funding over the last five years to teach other nurses how to care for sickle cell… Read More

Fourth Sickle Cell Boot Camp for Nursing Highlights Program’s Expanding Impact

Written by Leigh Ann Roman

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The fourth Sickle Cell Boot Camp to Promote Nursing Excellence at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will draw 31 nurses to Memphis from as far away as Tanzania April 8-12. This marks a continuing expansion of an innovative program that trains nurses in the care of patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), hosted… Read More