In The News: School of Nursing
With the ease of a seasoned professional, MarSadie Brian lifted the staples out of her patient’s leg, bandaged the healing gash and removed her gloves the way all nurses are supposed to — pinching the first one at the wrist before peeling it back, then sliding two fingers under the other glove to pull it off.
High school students are getting some hands-on training of what it’s like to in the nursing field and they’re doing it through a Nurse Camp at UNLV’s School of Medicine.
Fourteen teenagers spent part of Wednesday morning listening for irregularities in the heart and lung sounds of Nursing Anne, a manikin on a hospital bed at the Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas.
Nurses on the frontline have been vital in the fight against Covid-19.
High School students get hands-on training during a UNLV Nurse Camp at UNLV School of Medicine’s Clinical Simulation Center
High School students get hands-on training during a UNLV Nurse Camp at UNLV School of Medicine’s Clinical Simulation Center in Las Vegas Wednesday July 14, 2021.
Right now, UNLV’s Nurse Camp is underway to give high school juniors, seniors and recent graduates an up-close-and-personal look at what it takes to join the field.
The concept of provider burnout is not new in healthcare but has received more attention in the past year related to the impact of Sars-CoV-2 "COVID-19" on those providing care. Burnout is defined as "a long-term stress reaction marked by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and lack of sense of personal accomplishment" (AHRQ, 2017). In recent years, this has been studied as its rising prevalence has been noted by all types of health care providers. The etiology is multi-faceted and can be linked to work conditions such as time pressures, chaotic environments, poor organizational culture, feelings of dissatisfaction, stress, and outside responsibilities related to family and life pressures (AHRQ, 2017).
A new summer camp at UNLV will introduce kids to the world of nursing.
How a handful of Penn Nursing alumni—and Penn Nursing's Associate Dean, Lisa Lewis—are shaping the way higher ed improves diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Ensuring Integrity, Sensitivity, and Rigor in the Development of NCLEX items.