MANS Breakthrough to Nursing Chair

Claudine Hennessey
Johns Hopkins University
mansbtn@gmail.com

Claudine Hennessey is currently a senior at Johns Hopkins University
School of Nursing.  She comes the Maryland Association of Nursing
Students as a Peace Corps fellow having served as a health volunteer
in Cameroon, Africa.

It was in the Peace Corps that the seed of becoming a nurse, and
working with the under served to eliminate health disparities was
planted. This year, Claudine is the recipient of a Fuld Fellowship
where she is currently working with the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Emergency Department.

This past summer, Claudine was the recipient of the Minority Health
and Health Disparities International Research Training program funded
by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities,
National Institutes of Health. She was privileged to work with mentor
and Professor Jacquelyn Campbell and a fellow nursing student on a
Rape Homicide research project with the head of Forensic Medicine and
Toxicology at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

Claudine's ultimate career goal is to become a Sexual Assault Nurse
Examiner, and work with refugee and under served populations
throughout the continent of Africa.

Claudine is honored to have been elected to the position of Break
Through to Nursing Chair, and is excited about spreading the word
about a career in nursing to the next up and coming college bound
students throughout Maryland.