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PrintOn Tuesday afternoon, 32 boxes of donated nursing textbooks were ready to be shipped halfway around the world, from MU’s Printing Services to the Indian Society of Health Administrators in Bangalore, India.
Collected by Marcia Flesner, a clinical instructor at the MU Sinclair School of Nursing and president of District 7 of the Missouri Nurses Association, the books are intended to help restock the devastated nursing school library at Eastern University of Sri Lanka, which was washed out by the Dec. 26 tsunami.
“I knew I wanted to be part of this textbook drive as soon as I read the e-mail (from the American Nurses Association),” Flesner said. “I have a lot of fine, used nursing textbooks, and I had been looking for a way to help the tsunami victims. This seemed to be a perfect fit.”
Flesner e-mailed the members of the local nurses association and nurses at University Hospital, inviting them to participate in the donation. About six weeks later, almost 450 used nursing textbooks, none older than 10 years, were piled outside Flesner’s office.
“The books are of all ranges,” Flesner said. “All the things you need to become a nurse.”
Aside from the textbook collecting, Flesner received more than $250 from members of the Global Nurse Exchange 2005 in Mexico, $500 from the Sigma Theta Tau chapter, $500 from District 7 of the nurses association and several other personal donations. The money helped pay the estimated $1,200 international shipping fee for the 1,360-pound textbook package.
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