A Hays nursing aide turns a class project into free comfort kits
Addy Couchman, a certified nursing assistant and Fort Hays State student, turned a class project into free comfort kits for patients at the Dreiling/Schmidt Cancer Institute at HaysMed.
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A class assignment at Fort Hays State became something patients can hold, Hays311 reported. Addy Couchman, a certified nursing assistant and a student there, put together free comfort kits for people receiving chemotherapy at the Dreiling/Schmidt Cancer Institute at HaysMed.
The kits are a student project that left the classroom and reached a treatment floor in Hays. The report is about those free kits and the person who built them, not a claim about how any one patient will feel, and not a promise that the supply will cover every visit.
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