When Rachel Fariscal, BSN’ 20, arrived to check on a man in his early 90s she was nervous. She’d completed clinical hours at hospitals before but as part of her community health rotation she was about...
Olena Khudiakova ABSN ’20 has logged dozens of hours reading textbooks and treating mannequin “patients” in SMU simulation labs. But what she has come to value most in the last few months of the...
After an extensive nationwide search, Samuel Merritt University has selected Lorna Kendrick, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS, as its new School of Nursing dean. Kendrick, who started May 26, succeeds Audrey Berman...
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...
Hannah Miller, ABSN ’18, is an orthopedic nurse at San Jose’s Good Samaritan Hospital—someone who values consistency and order. Then COVID-19 hit the Bay Area, bringing with it chaos and changing...
It’s 8 p.m. and Howard is despondent. Earlier in the day, he was hit by a scooter on the streets of Oakland. He’s being treated at a local hospital for a fractured ankle and burning pain in his hand...
When Rebecca Owen, MSN-FNP ’11, DNP ’19, began working as a family nurse practitioner at an organization that provides affordable healthcare to underserved populations in and around Sacramento, she...
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...
Megan FitzGerald BSN ’19 was nervous during her interview for an internship at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center. As a Samuel Merritt University nursing student who had just completed...
Samuel Merritt University (SMU) alumni earn the highest salaries among undergraduates from all other California universities and from nearly all schools nationwide, according to the recently updated...
