NHS Duo Goes to Honduras

In November, two members of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies traveled to Honduras to provide health care services.

Kathryn Ellis, MSN, CANP, program director, and Abbie Burke, RN, a current student, spent one week in Comayagua, Honduras with the Virginia Hospital Center Medical Brigade.

The brigade is non-profit, non-denominational organization that sponsors annual, week-long humanitarian health care mission trips to Honduras, in collaboration with the Lions Club of Comayagua. Services include primary care, eye care, hearing services, physical therapy, and surgery. While there, Ellis and Burke worked as providers with the primary care team.

The two are also involved year-round with the Remote Village Project, a community health project affiliated with the medical brigade. The project, which started in 2006, is a reproducible model for providing sustainable, community-based primary health care services in rural Honduras.

Ellis, left, and Burke, right, provide primary care during a recent trip to Honduras.