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Mount Saint Mary College Nursing students administer flu shots on campus Wednesday, September 20, 2023. Here, Carol Wanyo, assistant professor of Nursing, oversees student Sarah Kluge of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., as she gives a shot to Shannon Neiswenter…

Mount Saint Mary College Nursing student and softball player Riley Norwood of East Haven, Conn. will graduate in May of 2024, and has already secured a job at Yale New Haven Hospital.   It’s still weeks before she’s scheduled to receive her diploma…

Mount Saint Mary College’s Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD) program hosted “The Opioid Epidemic: A Public Health Crisis,” a workshop for students and faculty, on Wednesday, March 27. Michelle Tingson-Prego, an Area Health Education Center Scholar and…

Local children recently learned the ins and outs of medical care at a Fuzzy Friends Clinic, staffed by Mount Saint Mary College Nursing students and held at the Newburgh Free Library in Newburgh, N.Y. The Mount has hosted several Fuzzy Friends Clinics…

Mount Saint Mary College Nursing alumnae Elizabeth Scannell-Desch ’72, PhD, RN, OCNS, FAAN and her twin sister, Mary Ellen Doherty ’72, PhD, RN, CNM, will present “Journey to a Book: Women’s Journeys to Posttraumatic Growth” on Tuesday, April 23 at 9…

Mount Saint Mary College Nursing major Kylie Dragonetti of Massapequa, N.Y., seen here in the college’s theatre, will graduate on Saturday, May 18.   COVID-19 cases in the United States were on an uptick when Kylie Dragonetti of Massapequa, N.Y. began…

Mount Saint Mary College’s Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD) program hosted a workshop featuring Wanda Thruston, DNO, APRN, RN, and director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the American Association for Colleges of Nursing (AACN), on Wednesday,…

Mount Saint Mary College’s Riley Norwood of East Haven, Conn., Student Nurses’ Association vice president, stands next to a bleeding control kit in the college’s main academic building, Aquinas Hall.   Mount Saint Mary College Nursing students learned…

When Mount Saint Mary College nursing majors headed to the Children’s Discovery Museum in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. recently, it wasn’t the first time they had taught young children about how doctors and nurses heal their patients – but it was one of the most…

Students from Mount Saint Mary College’s Nursing Workforce Diversity Program recently mentored high schoolers enrolled in the Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) program at the Newburgh Free Academy (NFA), North Campus. Through this event, high school…