Debbie Shockey Presented at the APHON Conference
Debbie Shockey, D.N.P., RN, CPNP, assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Health Nursing, presented a poster at the APHON conference in Louisville, Kentucky on Sept. 19. The poster, titled “Pre-procedural distress in children with cancer: An intervention using biofeedback and relaxation as resiliency enhancing tools,” is a summary of her work in this […]
Alumna Feature – Allisyn Pletch (B.S ’92/H&S, B.S. ’97/N)
Carolyn Jones, author of 2012’s book American Nurse , knows an exceptional nurse when she sees one. There on page 104 is the VCU School of Nursing’s own Allisyn Pletch in her role as clinical coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Eating Disorders Program. Pletch began her studies at VCU with the goal of becoming a […]
CLC Hosts Transport Nurse Advanced Trauma Course
The VCU School of Nursing hosted a Transport Nurse Advanced Trauma Course in the Clinical Learning Center over the weekend. The three-day course, coordinated by Jay Lovelady, RN, of VCU LifeEvac, covered various types of trauma, transport considerations, medical-legal issues, as well as skills labs on chest tube insertion, needle decompression, surgical airways and pericardiocentesis. […]
SON Team Dominates Medical Mile in Broad Street Mile Event
The VCU School of Nursing team dominated the medical mile race of the Broad Street Mile event on Saturday with nursing student Kyle Jones crossing the finish line first in a time of 5:34. The Broad Street Mile was a VCU-sponsored city-wide event that offered participants the opportunity to compete in fun runs, raise money for […]