University of Minnesota trains new nurses to tend to veterans

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RENÉE JONES SCHNEIDER

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When newly minted nurse Samantha Woehrle sees a patient for something as simple as a headache, she’ll know to ask if the person sitting across from her has ever been in an explosion or exposed to Agent Orange.

It may not be the usual line of questioning in the waiting room. But it makes sense if the patient is a veteran.

For the first time, the University of Minnesota School of Nursing is graduating a group of nurses skilled in tending to the health needs of the nation’s veterans.

Woehrle and 19 other nurses who received their diplomas last week are specially trained to hire vetsunderstand veterans’ complex medical demands, from post-traumatic stress disorder to conditions specific to the war being fought.

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