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SMU Receives Maximum Accreditation from WSCUC
Samuel Merritt University has received the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC) accreditation for a period of 10 years, the longest time period possible for such accreditation. “This...
What’s Occupational Therapy? Gardening, Journaling, and Riding Horses
Victoria Lopez, OTD ’21, sat close by and watched as an occupational therapist worked with a 5-year-old who had autism. The girl bounced on an inflatable yoga ball. Sometimes the therapist took the...
Podcaster Ups Her Nursing Game
Last year, Annie Fulton, ABSN ’14, had reservations for a glorious two-week vacation to Italy, but Covid waylaid those plans. What was a nurse with time on her hands to do? Fulton, who listens to a...
What’s it Like Being a Public Health Nurse During the Pandemic?
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...