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Emily Shields
  • Nursing BSN
  • Class of 2018
  • Canfield, Ohio

Emily Shields joins YSU medical mission to Mexico

2017 Mar 14

Emily Shields of Youngstown, OH (44514), a Nursing student at Youngstown State University, is part of a 10-person student-faculty team in San Quintin, Mexico, for a medical mission trip.

The team includes eight Nursing majors and two Nursing faculty members. They will provide medical care to the underserved residents of a the small fishing-farming town that has little access to health care. This is the 10th consecutive year that YSU's Department of Nursing has sent a mission team to Mexico.

In advance of the trip, which is scheduled March 13 to 19, the students conducted fundraisers to pay for medication so that that could distribute free medicine to their clinic patients.