Level 3 Nursing students were invited into Pinellas and Hillsborough County schools for an hour, a few class periods or an entire school day to share information with students about their future careers in nursing. The nursing students organized an activity, taught a class and spoke about their future nursing careers.
Internal Education Week kicked off Monday, November 13th at the Caruth Health Education Center. Level 1 Nursing Students from Mrs. Anne Morris Class shared their “Culture in Healthcare” poster boards.
The BSN program is considering changes to the curriculum. Students were asked what topics they would like included in the program content. Overwhelmingly, nurses are concerned about the opioid epidemic. Some of these topics will be included in course content in the near future, and in course design as changes to the curriculum are made
St. Petersburg College of Nursing faculty, Nursing Students, and The Student Nurses Association officers participated in the Making Strides of Pinellas on Saturday, October 14, 2017 in Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg. The SNA officers volunteered fro “Clip board brigade and signed up many participants in Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5 K.
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks are the largest network of breast cancer awareness events in the nation, uniting communities with a shared determination to help free the world from the pain and suffering of breast cancer.
The Quality Enhancement Committee kicked off SPC’s Ready, Set, Succeed! Spirit Week on October 2nd. The main goal of Spirit Week is to inform our SPC community about SPC’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Ready, Set, Succeed!
Each day of Spirit Week has a theme based on the student learning outcomes of Ready, Set, Succeed!
Simulation education is a bridge between classroom learning and real-life clinical experience. Clinical simulations are practical learning experiences designed to give students exposure to a comprehensive range of clinical scenarios that may be encountered in the workplace. The debriefing is usually a type of reflective learning exercise in which students review their own performance and consider how nursing theory is actually applied to nursing practice, then receive feedback from an instructor ((Aebersold & Tschannen, 2013)
On June 6, 2017, Dr. Wallace, Mrs. Castillo and Lisa Crumbley created a thermal Burn Simulation Scenario for 21 Level 3 Nursing students. The students were placed in groups of 3 and were given nursing roles (primary nurse, medication nurse and student nurse). The students were to apply the nursing practices they learned in Theory class to this patient that arrived in the ER after a Meth Lab explosion. The Scenario consisted of two phases taking place first in the ER and then in the Burn Unit.
The St. Petersburg College of Nursing held their Spring 2017 Pinning Ceremony at Indian Rocks Baptist Church in Largo on May 4.
A pinning ceremony is a symbolic welcoming of newly graduated nurses into the nursing profession. The new nurses are presented with nursing pins by the faculty and a yellow rose.
Congratulations to all of our graduates this term!
On April 22, 2107 at the Allstate Campus, the community had the opportunity to explore careers that impact their community! Attendees had a fun family day full of activities. They were able to get an up close view of an assortment of trucks, including fire and rescue, law enforcement, utilities, construction, animal services, and medical vehicles. Nursing Faculty members Jake Schwalb, Anna Neuzil, Chris Lutoka, Christina Patterson, Jennifer Mistretta and Angela Clem took part in this fun event by representing all of the Health Education programs.
On Monday, March 27th the SNA board members helped be a part of registering new possible matches with Be the Match.Be The Match® is a global leader in bone marrow transplantation. They conduct research to improve transplant outcomes, provide support and resources for patients, and partner with a global network. For the thousands of people diagnosed every year with life-threatening blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, a cure exists. Over the past 25 years Be The Match , operated by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), has managed the largest and most diverse marrow registry in the world. We work every day to save lives through transplant.
In honor of Go Red for Women’s Heart Health, Student Nurses’ Association (SNA) members accepted donations for red shirts in the lobby during the month of February. Nursing students were allowed to wear their red shirts on Mondays and Wednesdays during on campus days. The purpose of this effort was to help bring awareness to the significance of heart disease especially as it occurs in women.