title: Nursing abroad stirs the soul.
abstract: After establishing herself in her career as a perioperative nurse and ensuring her grown children were settled, this author pursued her dream of working abroad as a nurse. She chose to work in Pakistan, which is where her father was born. Her experiences there gave her a new appreciation for the help that perioperative nurses can offer to the citizens of developing countries.
authors.forename: Zarina
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Varma
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010154:Pakistan; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000266:history; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000266:history*; D014838:Volunteers / Q000266:history*