This September, Dr. Paulina Van, a professor in the College of Nursing and renowned member of the Samuel Merritt community, will retire from her full-time faculty position. In a letter to the...
Samuel Merritt University has received a $100,000 grant from The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). The award was given to support competency-based education for practice-ready nurse...
Samuel Merritt University has been ranked as one of the top institutions in the United States for 2023. The College of Nursing took home high honors in the Best Online Nurse Practitioner Degree...
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...
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...
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...
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...
