Molokaʻi · Healthcare · Community
House calls on a road that floods
Amelia Kahananui on rural nursing, trust, and why she never once asked a family for paperwork at the door.
Storyteller
Amelia Kahananui
Kaunakakai · 1950s
Community health nurse who served rural Molokaʻi families for thirty-eight years.
Transcript
You do not start with the clipboard. You start by sitting down. Sometimes I sat for an hour before anybody told me who was actually sick. That hour is the care.
Themes
- Trust
- Service
- Rural life
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