In five years, what will Samuel Merritt University look like? What type of student will it educate? What communities will it serve? And how can the 112-year-old institution cultivate a culture of...
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...
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...
What determines how long you live? It turns out that your zip code plays a key role. The California Endowment reported in 2016 that people in communities with little or no access to preventative...
Nursing Professor Paulina Van has received the 2021 Excellence in Nursing Leadership Award for Education from the Nu Xi at-Large Chapter of Sigma, an organization committed to developing nurse leaders...
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...
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...
About three years ago, Sarah Jingying Zhang, PhD, CRNA ’15, began looking for solutions to America’s opioid epidemic. Her ongoing—and now award-winning research—focuses on alternatives to common...
Ultra Humphries, BSN ’20, comes from a family of caregivers. Her grandmother and mother were both nurses. Growing up, she wanted to be a nurse, too. But her plans were sidetracked when she had her...