Eight graduate student nurse anesthetists from Barry University volunteered to collect almost 50 units of life-saving blood recently during the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) annual meeting blood drive in Boston, MA.The student volunteers, Trisha Baldree, Eric Clark, Renatta Gibson, Stevie Maher, Chikako Okai, Jennifer Plebanski, Amanda Schmidgall and Lori Tolson took part of the community outreach project organized by AANA in partnership with the American Red Cross.
The student volunteers enthusiastically assisted more than 62 donors that signed-in for the drive.
Pictured are volunteers (l-r) Chikako Okai, Trisha Baldree, Lori Tolson, Renatta Gibson and Amanda Schmidgall.
