MSN Graduate Serves on Biocontainment Team That Treated Ebola Patients

Meagan Freml MSN’15 has always wanted to help and serve others.

As a relief lead registered nurse in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at Nebraska Medical Center-Nebraska Medicine, Freml cares for adult patients in the hospital because of trauma, transplants, surgery, or multi-system organ failure. She is also on the Biocontainment Unit team of registered nurses that cared for three Ebola patients.

“When working with patients who have dangerous diseases…every move is calculated,” Freml said. “We know that Ebola is highly contagious and can kill very quickly. That is why education and training are so important.”

Freml said she chose to pursue her master’s degree at College of Saint Mary because she wanted to teach and inspire new nurses as an adjunct instructor.

“I hope to be a resource and have credibility among my peers. I hope to be the kind of nurse others aspire to be,” she said.

Freml plans to enroll in Nurse Anesthesia school this fall.