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Senior nursing students travel to West Africa to study women’s health – and discover something about themselves. Anxiety. Poor working conditions. Limited access to health care. Those are just some of the issues facing the women who work on the fish docks in Senegal, but a group of Saint Joseph’s nursing students plans to change [...]
It’s 8 a.m., and more than a thousand volunteers are preparing for the 117th Boston Marathon. Nicole Ashton Rice sits with a group of other volunteers for a training video that outlines what they can expect to happen that day. It’s her eighth year working as a volunteer nurse at the marathon. “The video demonstrates [...]
Brenda Rice ’99/’08, the program manager for Saint Joseph’s online radiologic science administration degree, keeps very busy these days. The former head of the School of Radiology at Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine, Rice spends much of her time developing educational agreements with radiology schools faced with a new mandate requiring their graduates to have an [...]
As nurses take on leadership roles, they could change the health care landscape: A look at the future of nursing and its impact on patients. In 2010, a landmark report by the Institute of Medicine set forth how nursing practice and education should change in profound ways. Dr. Lois Hamel, director of the online nursing [...]
Spotlight on a special planned giving donor Cornelia Baker ’85 is a retired occupational health nurse and donor to Saint Joseph’s College. Born in Cleveland Ohio, and raised in the midwest and the Philadelphia area, she attended Albert Einstein School of Nursing in Philadelphia, where she met and married her husband, Bernard Baker, who became [...]
How one alumna at a major urban hospital piloted a national program that changed the culture for nurses and patients on her unit. Inside a hospital, medical care never stops. For nurses working a 12-hour shift, a good time to take a real lunch break never comes… or does it? In 2007, one unit at [...]
Nurse practitioner program becomes specialty within graduate nursing degree Nurses can now obtain their accredited family nurse practitioner course work online through Saint Joseph’s College. The family nurse practitioner (FNP) classes can be done either as part of the Master in Nursing (MSN) degree or as a post-MSN certificate. “There are only a handful of [...]
During a recent renovation to the nursing facilities in Mercy Hall, a Simulation Man lab upgrade was constructed with improved hardware, software, and a new room with one-sided glass allowing professors to monitor the protocol of nursing students as they interact with a simulated patient, aka, SimMan. Both students and professors learn from the medical [...]
Andrew Wasowski '11 of Windham, Maine, was recruited by the Marine Corps in high school. At age 18, he found himself in boot camp, which was followed by three tours in Iraq, where he spent nearly 28 months. He is now a junior nursing student on campus. What did you do in Iraq? Intelligence. It [...]
From the time she was 10 and faced weeks of hospital bed rest because of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, Susan Miovech wanted to be a nurse. Today, she holds an appointment as associate professor of nursing at Holy Family University in Philadelphia. Her work in the health care profession is the culmination of a life spent [...]
