Carrie Furberg
BA, BSN, RN, CRN
Carrie Furberg is a certified radiology nurse in general and in interventional radiology at the largest non-profit hospital in North Carolina, the University of North Carolina Medical Center. UNCMC supports public health outreach to individuals in greatest need in low-resource communities in North Carolina.
She’s expanded her work and achievements beyond the North Carolina border and has worked tirelessly with RAD-AID International since 2018. Her efforts addressed gaps in health equity through capacity building and the development of sustainable radiology nursing education programs in low-resource communities in Guyana, South America, and, later this year, in Kenya.
Both RAD-AID International and the Association of Radiology and Imaging Nursing (ARIN) have called upon Carrie to share her professional nursing knowledge and international outreach experiences. Her contributions are enabling the development of radiology nursing globally. Through her enthusiasm, compassion, and nursing expertise, Carrie has widely crossed cultural barriers and built relationships with individuals and healthcare teams. During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Carrie dedicated herself to helping RAD-AID nursing extend and pivot to support hybrid distance/virtual learning platforms for interdisciplinary outreach in Guyana and beyond.
The RAD-AID Mission is to improve and optimize access to medical imaging and radiology in low-resource regions of the world. The overall goal is to increase radiology’s contribution to global public health initiatives and patient care. Carrie’s outstanding efforts and invaluable support of the RAD-AID Nursing mission have contributed significantly to meeting their goal. They have seen fantastic accomplishments by Carrie to date and anticipate future milestone achievements.
Thank you, Carrie Furberg, for enabling nurses globally to expand their skill sets to include interventional radiology nursing.
– Deb
Carrie’s story:
Carrie Furberg has been an active supporter of RAD-AID’s nursing program as a Project Manager since 2018, spearheading and collaborating with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to create an innovative curriculum focused on patient care management in CT with Contrast in low-resource settings.
The development of this novel curriculum encompassed topics such as managing patient contrast emergencies, stroke care, post-procedural care, and radiology safety and has provided invaluable education to interdisciplinary radiology healthcare teams, including radiology resident-physicians, nurses, and technologists at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation in Guyana, South America. As such, radiology knowledge gained has supported the successful operationalization of three 64-slice CT scanners serving thousands of people across Guyana, South America.
In addition, due to the ongoing Covid 19 pandemic, Carrie further supported hybrid educational platforms to continue virtual distance learning education initiatives for Guyana, expanding this year to RAD-AID’s global partners and interdisciplinary healthcare teams in Nepal, Indonesia, and Kenya.
Carrie Furberg is a certified radiology nurse in general and in interventional radiology at the largest non-profit hospital in North Carolina, the University of North Carolina Medical Center. UNCMC supports public health outreach to individuals in greatest need in low-resource communities in North Carolina.
She’s expanded her work and achievements beyond the North Carolina border and has worked tirelessly with RAD-AID International since 2018. Her efforts addressed gaps in health equity through capacity building and the development of sustainable radiology nursing education programs in low-resource communities in Guyana, South America, and, later this year, in Kenya.
Both RAD-AID International and the Association of Radiology and Imaging Nursing (ARIN) have called upon Carrie to share her professional nursing knowledge and international outreach experiences. Her contributions are enabling the development of radiology nursing globally. Through her enthusiasm, compassion, and nursing expertise, Carrie has widely crossed cultural barriers and built relationships with individuals and healthcare teams. During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Carrie dedicated herself to helping RAD-AID nursing extend and pivot to support hybrid distance/virtual learning platforms for interdisciplinary outreach in Guyana and beyond.
The RAD-AID Mission is to improve and optimize access to medical imaging and radiology in low-resource regions of the world. The overall goal is to increase radiology’s contribution to global public health initiatives and patient care. Carrie’s outstanding efforts and invaluable support of the RAD-AID Nursing mission have contributed significantly to meeting their goal. They have seen fantastic accomplishments by Carrie to date and anticipate future milestone achievements.
Thank you, Carrie Furberg, for enabling nurses globally to expand their skill sets to include interventional radiology nursing.
– Deb
Carrie’s story:
Carrie Furberg has been an active supporter of RAD-AID’s nursing program as a Project Manager since 2018, spearheading and collaborating with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to create an innovative curriculum focused on patient care management in CT with Contrast in low-resource settings.
The development of this novel curriculum encompassed topics such as managing patient contrast emergencies, stroke care, post-procedural care, and radiology safety and has provided invaluable education to interdisciplinary radiology healthcare teams, including radiology resident-physicians, nurses, and technologists at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation in Guyana, South America. As such, radiology knowledge gained has supported the successful operationalization of three 64-slice CT scanners serving thousands of people across Guyana, South America.In addition, due to the ongoing Covid 19 pandemic, Carrie further supported hybrid educational platforms to continue virtual distance learning education initiatives for Guyana, expanding this year to RAD-AID’s global partners and interdisciplinary healthcare teams in Nepal, Indonesia, and Kenya.
