The COVID-19 pandemic has been emotionally, physically and mentally challenging, especially for nurses. To help students, faculty and staff find a healthy way to express themselves, West Virginia University School of Nursing Clinical Education Assistant Professor Brad Phillips recently hosted an art project called, “What COVID-19 Means to Me.”
West Virginia University School of Nursing is offering “Foundations of Faith Community Nursing” — an online continuing professional development course for individuals interested in helping to address the unique health-related needs within faith community settings.
West Virginia University will resume its public dashboard this week to track and compile COVID-19 information collected on the Morgantown, Beckley and Keyser campuses.
Prior to a meeting of the Medical Committee for Human Rights on March 25, 1966, in Chicago, Martin Luther King Jr. is quoted as saying: “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.”
West Virginia University reminds students, faculty and staff that it is extremely important to follow current public health guidance for individual, as well as campus community safety, in light of the continued rise in COVID-19 cases due to the omicron variant. Health experts predict the surge in positive cases may peak in West Virginia over the next two weeks.
West Virginia University School of Nursing students will benefit from a scholarship established in honor of a dedicated alumna’s 75th birthday. Michael Gandy contributed $52,000 to establish an endowed scholarship named for his wife of 40 years, Jane, who always dreamed of giving back to her alma mater. The Jane Fitzwater Gandy School of Nursing Scholarship will go to undergraduate nursing students, with first preference to those from West Virginia.
West Virginia University is committed to providing an on-campus learning experience as the spring 2022 semester approaches; however, with the rise in COVID-19 cases across the country and throughout the state because of the omicron variant, the University is implementing several updated campus health and safety protocols ahead of the start of classes that begin on Monday, Jan. 10.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va (WDTV) - West Virginia is seeing a major shortage of nurses and state officials say the state has seen a steady decline in nurses over the past two years due to burnout. One of the ways WVU School of Nursing is responding to the shortage is by allowing nursing faculty members to take a patient assignment with RNs.
Since the pandemic gained momentum, the demands on nurses have never been greater. Larger patient to staff ratios, nurses contracting the virus themselves, and workforce burnout exacerbated an already existing nursing shortage. As the need in West Virginia grew, WVU School of Nursing Dean Tara Hulsey and her team quickly developed a plan to meet the state’s nursing demands — giving students and faculty the opportunity to put their skills to work.
Congratulations to the December 2021 Health Sciences Graduates!