From nursing students to rural health pros: ECU program takes aim at NC’s rural provider shortage - North Carolina Health News
Amid the primary care shortage in rural North Carolina, an East Carolina University program is turning nursing students into rural health pros.
By Liora Engel-Smith In many ways, not much has changed since Kay Boykin was growing up on her family’s tobacco farm in rural Greene County in the 1960s. The family rarely saw the one doctor who practiced in the county, Boykin, now 67, recalled. Boykin and her five siblings helped out on the farm, tending […]