Nurses and the profession of nursing are at a turning point. They’re burning out at higher rates than ever before, resulting in less engaged patient care and many nurses leaving the profession...
To no one’s surprise, people’s mental health dramatically declined in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, an additional 129 million documented cases of depression and anxiety were reported...
On a cool evening in March, Ronnie Price walks a gentle-eyed Chihuahua mix around a pop-up health and social services clinic in the brick courtyard of the First Presbyterian Church in Berkeley. The...
SMU’s College of Nursing is launching the Stronger Together: Partnered Resilience and Trauma Recovery Project to build resilience among student nurses, faculty, and staff who face burnout from the...
A labor and delivery nurse in Oceanside, CA, Brittney Braker, BSN ’21, views nursing as more than bedside assistance—it is essential education. That’s particularly important to Brittney, who works...
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’s chest. This...
Carter Todd, ABSN ’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...
Jamilla Churchill, CRNA ’16, is among the mere 2% of African American nurse anesthetists in the U.S. As a founding member of the UCLA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee for the anesthesiology...
In the second of three Q&As with SMU alumnae who received the 2021 Create & Cultivate (C&C) 100 Award, Ana Armenta, CRNA ’16, discusses her journey from Honduras to Louisiana to California and how she...
Natalie Lucas, ELMSN-FNP ’21, is video conferencing with a 14-year-old female patient. Pre-COVID, Lucas would have been in an exam room with the teen at Oakland’s Roots Community Health Center, but...
