A month after graduating, Nate Deardorff, BSN ’19, was hired as a public health nurse for foster care kids in El Dorado County, outside Sacramento. Then COVID hit. Instead of working in foster care...
About three years ago, Sarah Jingying Zhang, PhD, CRNA ’15, began looking for solutions to America’s opioid epidemic. Her ongoing—and now award-winning research—focuses on alternatives to common...
Ultra Humphries, BSN ’20, comes from a family of caregivers. Her grandmother and mother were both nurses. Growing up, she wanted to be a nurse, too. But her plans were sidetracked when she had her...
It’s a blistering Saturday afternoon in late July, half past 10 in the morning and temps headed to 90 on this wide volcanic ridge in the Sierra foothills. In the gravel lot behind Magalia Community...
Like many healthcare students during the COVID-19 pandemic, my Doctor of Physical Therapy program clinical experience prior to my graduation was affected. My first clinical experience was in...
Rachel Gelman, DPT ’12, clearly remembers her first full-time clinical rotation as a physical therapy student. A patient came in complaining of back pain from a car crash, but it was a different...
Whether donning a pink wig and feather boa or playing guitar while he sings into a banana microphone, Dave Pilon, ODT ’12, is spreading joy and love in the time of COVID-19 to kids and families. His...
Alex Malliaris, ELMSN-FNP ’18 couldn’t sit idle after the shelter-in-place order shuttered the Oakland clinic where she worked as a nurse practitioner and clinical services manager. So, when she got a...
While researching stress and exhaustion among advanced practice clinicians (APCs), Sutter Health nurse administrator Surani Hayre-Kwan, DNP ’19, discovered that the first-year turnover for the group...
Japan has the lowest organ donation rate in the world, putting at risk many of its citizens. Now, SMU’s Joyce Trompeta, BSN ’88, has set out to help change that. “The Japanese are known for their...
