Two decades ago, Surani Hayre-Kwan, DNP 鈥19, was director of surgery services at a hospital in Sonoma County where large numbers of children arrived with aching mouths and signs of advanced tooth...
A young patient is in the ER crying from the pain of a headache. A nurse takes her vital signs, asks her to rate the pain on a scale of 1 to 10, and carefully notes a rash on the patient鈥檚 chest. This...
Carter Todd, ABSN 鈥15, has been recognized by the Sacramento Business Journal as a 40 Under 40 in healthcare for his advocacy work recruiting Black nurses to the profession as well as his work...
Fiona Langley, MSN-CRNA 鈥15, knows her patients feel stressed and vulnerable as they鈥檙e being prepped for surgery. She鈥檚 seen patients shut down and refuse to talk and others who can鈥檛 stop talking...
After greeting the half-dozen or so seniors who had joined the Zoom exercise class, SMU nursing students queued up Sam Cooke. As the song 鈥淗aving a Party鈥 faded in, one of the students announced the...
Shifting his weight from side to side like he鈥檚 ready to pounce, Huy Trinh, DPT 鈥21, signals the next move to half-a-dozen community members tuned in on Zoom for a physical therapy shadowboxing class...
At 8 years old, Manuel Arteaga, ELMS-CM 鈥21, saw firsthand the disparities in healthcare that his family sometimes experienced. That鈥檚 when Arteaga, the eldest child of Mexican immigrants, began...
It鈥檚 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...
When Rachel Fariscal, BSN鈥 20, arrived to check on a man in his early 90s she was nervous. She鈥檇 completed clinical hours at hospitals before but as part of her community health rotation she was about...
Olena Khudiakova ABSN 鈥20 has logged dozens of hours reading textbooks and treating mannequin 鈥減atients鈥 in SMU simulation labs. But what she has come to value most in the last few months of the...
