SMU News
Keep up-to-date on all the recent news, achievements and breakthroughs happening at SMU.
Ana Armenta, CRNA ’16, Grew Up in Poverty. Now She’s a Nurse with a Master’s Degree
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…
- MSN Nurse Anesthesia
- College of Nursing
- Alumni
- Transforming Health Care Through Diversity and Inclusion
Runway to the Real World
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…
- ELMSN Family Nurse Practitioner
- ELMSN Case Management
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Breast Cancer Diagnosis Inspired Nursing Career
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%…
- MSN Nurse Anesthesia
- College of Nursing
- Alumni
- Transforming Health Care Through Diversity and Inclusion
- Careers
What’s it Like Being a Public Health Nurse During the Pandemic?
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,…
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- College of Nursing
- Alumni
- Sacramento
When Theresa Cordova Cares for Veterans, She’s Helping Heroes
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…
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- College of Nursing
- Veterans Resource Center
Better Care: New Dean Says Nursing Has Changed
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,…
- College of Nursing
Letter From Exile
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.…
- Administration
- Transforming Health Care Through Diversity and Inclusion
After the Inferno: How a Family of Nurses is Helping Paradise Recover From California’s Deadliest Wildfire
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…
- College of Nursing
- Community Engagement
- Alumni
More Than a Therapist, An Advocate
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…
- Doctor of Occupational Therapy
- Giving
- College of Health Sciences
Facing COVID-19 as a Student Physical Therapist
Like many healthcare students during the COVID-19 pandemic, my Doctor of Physical Therapy program clinical experience prior to my graduation was affected. My first clinical experience was in…
- Doctor of Physical Therapy
- Alumni
- Clinicals
- Immersive Learning
- Oakland
