A little over a year ago Jen Martin was standing on a sidewalk cheering on her sister who was running the Middletown Half Marathon. Jen couldn’t help but notice the large, beautiful building behind her. After she saw the Community Health Center sign, she told herself she would have to look it up later. A few weeks passed and Jen continued on with her normal schedule as a nurse manager at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. One night she remembered the…
Spotlight: Journal Club Every first Wednesday of the month, staff members at the Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) are encouraged to meet and discuss a research article. Participants can join in-person or via Zoom Videoconference call. This month, Kerry Bamrick led Journal Club in a discussion regarding the usefulness and need for nurse practitioner (NP) programs. The group discussed the key points in the article and ended the conversation with ideas on research projects that can stem out of the…
This week we are introducing a Nurse Practitioner Resident, Nichole Mitchell. She had many adventures before pursuing a career in quality primary care as an APRN and choosing CHC’s residency program. Read her bio below to learn more: As a teenager I went on two formative medical trips to Haiti and the Dominican Republic that kick started my path to becoming a medical provider. I graduated from University of Notre Dame in ’06 where I did a joint thesis (with…
This week we are pleased to introduce a third Nurse Practitioner participating in our residency program, Ashley Fine. She has extensive experience in the health care setting both in the United States and abroad and is currently working with patients at our Middletown site. Learn more from her biography below: I finished my Master of Science in Nursing this past Spring at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Before that I worked as nurse on the in-patient orthopedic/trauma unit at The Johns Hopkins…
CHC has welcomed another class of Nurse Practitioner Residents to our program this fall! They will be gaining experience throughout the sites while bringing their new perspectives. There are ten residents at our sites across Connecticut, but for the first time CHC is also remotely-hosting a program for four NP Residents in Washington State, at the Yakima Valley Farm Worker’s Clinic and Columbia Basin Health Association. We will be introducing them all on the blog here every other Thursday, as…
“Summer’s almost over and I’m crying and I don’t know why…” The lyrics of Cheryl Wheeler’s song echo in my head as I think about CHC’s NP Residency and Post Doc Residency Graduation Ceremony last night. It has been a great summer for CHC and our residents. Our Clinical Director, Margaret Flinter, often speaks of the residency program as ‘hardening off’ newly graduated Nurse Practitioners. Non-gardeners may misunderstand what this means. One article about hardening plants puts it this way,…