Montreal Gazette - Nurses nurture learning with textbooks; Two from MUHC collect 111 books for Congo

More than 110 French-language nursing texts have travelled across the world from Quebec to central Africa because of the actions of two nurses with the McGill University Health Centre Education Portfolio. Last spring, members of the MUHC Education Portfolio were approached by faculty from the Tufts University School of Medicine.

The school, which is outside Boston, is involved in a federally funded initiative known as Project RESPOND and, in that capacity, it supports nursing education at the School for Nursing Training in the Zone de la Santé Kapolowe of the Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It seems that one of the needs it identified for the area was for books - specifically French-language nursing texts. Julia Thomas and Nancy Posel of the Education Portfolio, both nurses, contacted Marcel Éloquin, coordinator of the nursing department at Montreal's Collège Édouard-Montpetit. With the support of the Longueuil CEGEP, and assistance from Zac Kenny of the McGill Molson Medical Informatics Project, they collected 111 French nursing books to be donated to the Congo nursing school.