WINSTON-SALEM (August 6, 2021) ā Educators teach nurses how to calm nervous patients. Sometimes instinct does the rest. Thatās what happened March 10 at a pop-up Novant Health COVID vaccine clinic at St. Peterās Church and World Outreach Center in Winston-Salem. Vergie Hartās prayers and her children convinced her she needed to be vaccinated. But… READ MORE
(Aug. 4, 2021) ā Big urban hospitalsā demand for nurses seems obvious. But whatās less obvious is the need for nurses in North Carolinaās rural communities. āYou find that our graduates are more likely to be in those places that are sometimes hardest to fill, in terms of those nursing positions,ā Dr. Scott Ralls, President… READ MORE
RALEIGH (August 4, 2021) ā Local hospitals. Rehab centers. Assisted-living homes. They all need trained nurses, particularly in North Carolinaās rural areas. And the stateās community colleges can supply those nurses. āIn 2020 alone, the North Carolina Community College System produced over 47% of the nurses that graduated in the state,ā Thomas Stith III, President… READ MORE
GREENSBORO (July 30, 2021) ā Weāve heard stories about firefighters who run toward the fire rather than away from it. Well three UNC Greensboro nursing students did just that at the height of the coronavirus pandemic last year. In the accompanying video, UNCG Associate Dean of Nursing Heidi Krowchuk tells the stories of three graduate students… READ MORE
CHAPEL HILL (July 28, 2021) ā Nurses were already in short supply two years ago. Add a global pandemic unlike anything seen in a century, with long hours and, for some, repeated patient deaths, and nursesā stresses only mounted. That had dramatic costs in both human and financial terms. āBurnout is serious,ā Dr. Cheryl Jones,… READ MORE
GREENSBORO (July 23, 2021) ā She is āthat nurseā ā the nurse with the sleeve of tattoos screening patients for COVID-19 outside UNC Hospitals whose photo went viral in March 2020. She is also Grace Cindric, a 2016 graduate of UNC Greensboroās School of Nursing. And she is āone of our alums ā a nurse… READ MORE
RALEIGH (July 21, 2021) ā Thereās no shortage of people who want to be nurses. And thereās no shortage of people who want to hire them. The shortage is a shortage of instructors ā largely because they can make more money being a nurse than teaching students how to nurse. āWhen you can make more… READ MORE
GREENSBORO (July 21, 2021) ā Hiring and keeping nursing faculty isnāt a challenge just at community colleges. āOne of the things that vexes us is that while thereās great student demand for spots in nursing schools, the supply of nursing faculty is actually quite constricted,ā UNC Greensboro Chancellor Franklin Gilliam says in the accompanying video…. READ MORE
CHAPEL HILL (July 16, 2021) ā So very many factors influence wellness ā and Dr. Sharon Elliott-Bynum embraced them all. In the accompanying video, Dr. Cheryl Giscombe, a Professor in the School of Nursing at UNC Chapel Hill, describes the community health center Elliott-Bynum built ā and built and built and built ā until she… READ MORE
RALEIGH (July 14, 2021) ā Thereās no better time to appreciate nurses in North Carolina. As we climb out of a global pandemic, weāve seen nurses take incredible risks to themselves and their families. Weāve seen them hold the hands of patients as they die. Weāve seen them hold tablets for patients to see and… READ MORE
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