Jan 10 2024 30 mins
This week on the podcast we Juli Boit, NP, BSN, of Living Room International. When I tell you I was humbled…I mean it!
Juli went to nursing school at Azusa Pacific and graduated in 2001. She started her nursing journey at Cedars Sinai on a floor taking care of HIV/AIDs patients. While she was in nursing school, she went on nursing trips to Kenya and continued that as a nurse working for a nonprofit.
In 2004, she moved to western Kenya to work with Kenyan leaders she had met on short term trip and worked for Empowering Lives International (a non-profit).
During her time there, she really wanted to start working more with hospice patients. The nonprofit she worked for at the time did not have that specific mission. Therefore, Living Room International was born. At Living Room International, they address the growing needs of hospice and palliative care in Kenya. They started a small community hospital, have 150 Kenyan staff and serve over 100,000 people/patients annually.
In addition to that! Julie has also written 2 books: “From Beyond the Skies” (2021) and “Brave Love” (2023). In these books she talks about the adoption process, caring for chronically ill children (with sickle cell anemia), bone marrow transplants, and the return to Kenya.
Juli and her family live in Kenya for about 10 months out of the year and they come back to the Los Angeles area for 2 months out of the year.
In this episode she talks about her nursing journey, compassion, compassion fatigue, nursing abroad…all the things.
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