Carroll native, Jamie Waller, is a registered nurse and six-year veteran of St. Anthony Regional Hospital, working on the medical, surgical and pediatric floors, often serving as charge nurse. Her passion for helping others, however, is not just evidenced in her daily shifts at St. Anthony, she has also been devoted to world-wide relief efforts, such as a three-week mission trip to Tanzania in Africa after her freshman year of nursing school. Just this past November, Waller and her husband Cory, took a trip to Haiti with Grace4Haiti medical mission group from Omaha, Neb. The Wallers joined the group’s 15th trip to work in a hospital setting by helping perform medical services, preparing patients for surgery, assisting surgeons and caring for patients. Jamie says she has grown both personally and professionally from the eye-opening experience. “I realized on this trip that we have many luxuries we take for granted here in the U.S.,” Waller said, “things as simple as running water and electricity in every health care facility, and features as complex as all of the technology and supplies we have available.” St. Anthony Regional Hospital donated supplies and a mission trip support fund to match Waller’s vacation hours for the trip. The Wallers are planning to return to Haiti in April of 2017, with the hope of spending more time in orphanages to show their support of Haitian children and to continue the relationships built in last November’s trip
