Volunteer Story – Lacy Holevis, Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse

I’ve always wanted to do some type of volunteer work and this organization really caught my attention. I’ve been a PICU/CICU nurse for seven years now and I am passionate about taking care of children with cardiac defects. I love to learn about other cultures and how medicine and nursing are practiced in other countries. This organization is perfect for me because it gives me an opportunity to do both of those things while helping children at the same time. I also enjoy educating the local staff in other countries about how to take care of these children in the postoperative period. Teaching them how to do a good nursing assessment, take frequent vitals and showing them how to take out drains, lines and wires. The organization’s staff is wonderful and very knowledgable and I really enjoy working with them and learning from them. I would recommend any nurse that takes care of pediatric cardiac patients to go on a trip with this organization. It’s so rewarding!