Los Angeles-based digital publisher and conference host Create & Cultivate (C&C) celebrates and promotes women in business. This year, C&C honored female hospital workers, comprising 77% of workers in...
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...
Nurse Theresa Cordova, BSN ’12, drove to her first in-home patient visit worried that it might reveal a veteran in his late 70s or early 80s living alone, unable to care for himself. In the year...
Earlier this summer, Lorna Kendrick, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS, was appointed College of Nursing dean after a nationwide search ( related article). She succeeds Audrey Berman, who served as dean for 15 years...
At 16, President Dr. Ching-Hua Wang’s life changed forever when she and other members of her family were rounded up, separated, and sent to work in remote factories and villages around China. They...
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...
Juliana Lainez, OTD ’22, knows what it’s like to be the parent of an occupational therapy patient. In fact, it’s the driving force behind her desire to become an occupational therapist. When her son...
The Samuel Merritt University School of Nursing ranks in the top 10 among 55 nursing schools in California, according to Nursing Process, a nationwide organization that assesses nursing education. The...
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...
Dakota Davis wails in pain as her mother sits anxiously beside her emergency room bed. Dakota is wearing sunglasses. "The lights are just hurting my eyes so much," groans Dakota, a 17-year-old college...
