title: Health care missions: changing the local landscape.
abstract: A nurse changed local healthcare access in a remote area by going to serve the Aymara people in Bolivia as a missionary after her retirement in the United States. Resources for exploring healthcare missions as a second career are offered.
authors.affiliation: Walsh University, USA.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: DeMetro
authors.forename: Sharon L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Oetker-Black
mesh_terms: D001838:Bolivia; D002835:Christianity; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D066189:Missionaries; D009729:Nursing; D008921:Religious Missions; D012179:Retirement; D014481:United States