{"id":69148,"date":"2015-04-02T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T20:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=69148"},"modified":"2015-04-02T15:18:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T20:18:49","slug":"uj-nursing-students-saves-mans-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=69148","title":{"rendered":"UJ nursing student saves man’s life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"johansennichole\"<\/a>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Annually, nursing students at the University of Jamestown travel abroad to see witness nursing techniques in other parts of the world and thus gain perspective. Students want to become nurses because they know it is a meaningful, purpose-driven vocation. As nurses, the expectation is that they will be instrumental in the saving of lives. As students going on a nursing-trip, however, it is certainly not expected. Nevertheless, this is exactly what happened during this spring\u2019s trip to Vietnam where UJ nursing student Nichole Johansen followed her calling and saved lives \u2013 not in a hospital setting but while dining at a pool-side restaurant.<\/p>\n

Nursing students and instructors were invited to dinner in Nha Trang, Vietnam by UJ alumnus Jim Johnson and his wife Sally. They were enjoying the delicacies when they heard noises of splashing and a child crying. Bethany Mello, nursing instructor at the University of Jamestown, said, “We turned and saw a man thrashing in the water, his head popping above the water line for seconds before going back under. At first we thought it was a joke, but the longer we watched, the more we realized this man was not fooling around.”<\/p>\n

A worker at the restaurant jumped in to help, but immediately the flailing man pulled him down and they were both in danger. People panicked and nobody knew what to do. The nursing students and professors were asking each other, “Should we jump in? Should we help?” Mello said, “It was in this instant that I saw a flash of pink and a big splash out of the corner of my eye. I then recognized the pink skirt and striped shirt swimming swiftly to the two men as Nichole Johansen. She positioned herself below the drowning man who was still clinging to the restaurant worker. With a strong kick off from the bottom of the pool she pushed both men to the side where they were able to grab hold of something solid and be hoisted to safety.”<\/p>\n

Both men emerged unharmed. Nichole simply rejoined the table with her wet dress and hair and continued sampling the unfamiliar delicacies. Nichole was a swim instructor for five years and a lifeguard for one year. When asked what made her jump in, she said, “I don\u2019t know. I wasn\u2019t really thinking. I just knew someone had to help him.”<\/p>\n

Nichole Johansen will be a 2015 graduate of the University of Jamestown with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Her hometown is Devil\u2019s Lake, ND. In addition to Nursing, she is active in with pole vaulting in the University\u2019s Track & Field program.<\/p>\n

The University of Jamestown was established in 1883 and is ranked as a top regional school in both US News and World Report and The Princeton Review. The school features development of the whole person through its distinctive Journey to Success experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Annually, nursing students at the University of Jamestown travel abroad to see witness nursing techniques in other parts of the world and thus gain perspective. Students want to become nurses because they know it is a meaningful, purpose-driven vocation. As nurses, the expectation is that they will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69152,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69148\/revisions\/69152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}