In The News: School of Nursing
The moment you decide to make a change and pursue a better career is empowering. You take your future into your own hands and make a choice that you hope will improve your life and the lives of your loved ones. Choosing to become a nurse is a big deal. Naturally, you want to make sure you’ve considered every angle possible. Likely one of the biggest considerations on your mind is how to pay for nursing school.
Nursing school can be exciting, both academically and personally. Learning life-saving procedures and patient care techniques allows future nurses to gain the necessary experience to save lives. However, maintaining good mental health in nursing school poses a challenge.
Even before the pandemic, Nevada had the second-largest nursing deficit in the country, and the pandemic has only worsened nurse burnout and retention. According to a 2022 report, nurses are leaving their jobs at “a dramatically higher rate” — Nevada needs to hire 4,000 nurses just to meet the national average.
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak visited with students from the UNLV nursing course, which provides an opportunity to prepare high school students in the medical field.
It's no secret that hospitals are experiencing a desperate shortage of nurses, and getting more students interested in the profession is the goal of the UNLV nurse camp, which is happening this week.
High school students are opening their eyes to the profession of nursing, UNLV School of Nursing is hosting their biggest summer camp yet.
Nurses in red T-shirts — some with the word “heroes” crossed out and replaced with the word “humans” — held signs and played music outside of St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center on a June afternoon as passing drivers honked in support.
A graduate student in nursing at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, implemented a better way to dispense medicine at VA Hospital of Southern Nevada.
This summer, high school students are learning what it takes to join the field of nursing and it’s happening at UNLV’s School of Nursing for its third annual nurse’s camp.
As Ryker Moriwaki showed Mario Scott how to monitor a person’s oxygen levels at UNLV’s School of Medicine on Wednesday, the two shared something in common: both of their mothers were nurses.
High school students are getting a first-hand look at what it takes to be a nurse.