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Teaching Understanding by Tyson Alger

The Flathead Reservation’s Salish Kootenai College nursing program works to infuse cultural understanding into patient care.

The first time the needle pierces the skin, it immediately hits crimson. It’s 9:15 in the morning at the Tribal Health Clinic in St. Ignatius and nurse Candice Brown draws blood from her first patient of the day.  She grasps the woman’s arm with her hand, holding it with the steadiness and precision of a professional but with the care of a relative.

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