{"id":75,"date":"2012-07-25T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nashcc.edu\/news\/?p=75"},"modified":"2012-08-06T17:22:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T17:22:12","slug":"ncc-student-nurses-purchase-air-conditioner-for-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2012\/07\/ncc-student-nurses-purchase-air-conditioner-for-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC Student Nurses Purchase Air Conditioner for Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nash Community College second year Nursing students have taken patient care to a new level. During a recent home visit for their Nash County Health Department clinical rotation, they met a patient whose family had no air conditioning in their home. &#8220;The students chose to use NCC Student Nursing Association funds to purchase a window air conditioning unit for the family. Their funds allowed them to purchase two additional units in case the need arises again,&#8221; NCC Nursing Instructor Tina Treish said. <!--more-->&#8220;Sometimes in order to meet the medical needs of a patient, we must first address more basic needs to ensure a better outcome. This act of kindness is reflective of our students&#8217; desire to treat the whole patient.&#8221; In addition to using money collected through membership fees and fundraisers, students donated personal items including a crib and changing table.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nashcc.edu\/images\/stories\/nursingclass_airconditioner_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured from left to right: NCC Student Nurse Krystal Pridgen, Nash County Health Department Nurse Wendy Tharrington and NCC Student Nurses: Kathryn Brownfield, Linsey Scott, Telissa Avila, Courtney Barbour, Cynthia Leonard, Melissa Owens and Latoya Richardson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nash Community College second year Nursing students have taken patient care to a new level. During a recent home visit for their Nash County Health Department clinical rotation, they met&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2012\/07\/ncc-student-nurses-purchase-air-conditioner-for-patient\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}