Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Story Ideas


-men in the school of nursing
-school of allied health, what is it?
-new school of allied health grant to get non-traditional student
-how tough is EMT training?
-available scholarships for the school of nursing
-school of nursing flu shots clinic
-school of nursing and the community blood center
-the family core project
-what is the most popular specialty in the school of nursing?
-what is the least popular specialty?
-interview Washburn graduates who are working in the community
-the physical therapy program: how big is the school, how hard is it to get in?
-sports medicine: what exactly constitutes this major, what do people do when they graduate?
-Practicums: which are the most popular? how do students go about picking their specialties?
-Volunteer work: students have to do some work at community centers around town as a requirement. How does this benefit their education?
-The 2+2 plan. I don't know much about it and I'm sure others don't either.
-Nurses who are planning on going and doing interesting things with their education, like joining the peace corp or the military.
-The Rogerian Conceptual System, the Science of Unitary Human Beings, was selected as the organizing framework for the original nursing curriculum. How many other school use it across the nation? How do students benefit from the curriculum as opposed to others?
-The Nursing shortage, is it on the mend? Is the demand for nurses still extremely high? How does the job market look for graduating seniors?
-The new labs that will be available in the fall, what exactly will be new and different and how will this improve education?
-Nursing Electives: what are the most popular ones? What do students seem to be interested in?
-Interview some high school kids who are interested in Washburn school of nursing. Where else are they considering? Why are they interested in Washburn?
-profile extraordinary students in the school of nursing.
-profile extraordinary faculty in the school of nursing.
-Professional nursing leaders is a class in which students work on a project for change in their community that enhances healthcare education. They use posters and presentations.
-the exchange program with Northern Ireland.  Students have the opportunity to go to northern ireland to complete their psychiatric rotation.  
-students are also going to Finland and keep up with work online.  
-Master's program has about fifty students
-student nurses of Washburn SNOW--contact Barb Stevenson
-  Communty caring club host speakers and other events--contact Patricia Joyce.
-Students will be participating in Aperion and will display their seniors honors projects having to do with nursing


Full length stories:

Dr. Hornberger is stepping down from her position as the dean of the school of nursing. She plans to take sabattical during the fall and in the spring semester come back as a faculty member. The search committee has not yet started the process of starting to find her replacement. Why are they dragging their feet? Another possibility is to highlight the things that have changed since Dr. Hornberger came on as dean.

In the last five years or so, the enrollment has risen by 25% and acceptance into the school is much more competitive. What is the reason behind this trend? How has the school administration kept up with the additional work without hiring more staff?



Briefs:

Open house for prospective students will be held March 3rd.

What does the mobile health unit van do? Where do they go? How does it benefit the community?

3 comments:

  1. Hey I was at the student health center on campus today and I don't know if this is totally in your area, but I was talking with the secretary there and she said that Dr. Gonzales is the only person working in the office now. Apperently both the nurse and the nurse practitioner quit in December. They can't really hire people because there's a hiring freeze right now and because Washburn is unwilling to pay competitively. On top of that they are having to turn away a lot of students because Dr. G just can't get to them all. I think this is a really important issue and it would be great if this could get some press. Health care shouldn't be ignored! Hope this helps!

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  2. You can certainly include this. Do WU nurses ever help out in the Student Health? If not, why not. Seems a good fit, eh?

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  3. Try to keep everything in AP style.

    March 3 (not 3rd)

    Spell out percent.

    It's just good practice to use AP always.

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