Fort Worth, TX
8/6/2009
By: Lauren Jones, TCU Schieffer School of Journalism
A TCU nursing graduate student's life took a drastic turn when she was deployed to Iraq, but she credits her success there to the training she has received in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program.
JoEllen Schimmels works with the prevention team that helps soldiers develop coping mechanisms and ways to handle stress. She was in the first year of her graduate program when she got the call to go to Iraq.
Being the officer-in-charge of a prevention team, Schimmels sees patients with behavioral health and combat stress-related problems. As a nurse, Schimmels sees first-hand the hardships of the battlefield, including the stressful and traumatizing effects of war.
Read more...http://www.newsevents.tcu.edu/1644.asp
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