Traditionally, healthcare providers have handled sleep-disordered breathing—a condition that affects more than 1 billion people worldwide—on an outpatient basis, but a new sleep medicine program at WVU suggests that addressing the problem in a hospital setting can be more effective.
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On Thursday, March 3, the WVU School of Nursing invites the BSN sophomore classes of August 2023 and December 2024 to participate in the Nursing Pledge Ceremony to be held in the Okey Patteson Auditorium at 5 p.m. This formal ceremony welcomes our newest BSN students to the study of nursing. This event was rescheduled from Friday, Feb. 4 due to inclement weather.
School of Nursing students are working to make Valentine’s Day a little brighter for WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital patients and residents at nursing homes. With the combined creative efforts of Morgantown Fast-Track nursing students, Beckley Campus Student Nurses Association and Morgantown SNA, more than 500 Valentine’s Day cards will be delivered today (Feb. 14).
WVU Medicine has entered into a three-year agreement to serve as a satellite site for the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Master of Diagnostic Cytology Degree Program. Cytology is the study of cells, and cytotechnologists are disease detectives who study the cells to identify minute abnormalities in cell structure.
Keyser Campus uses escape room to teach nursing students critical thinking, clinical judgment skills
As part of the NURS 312 class, Keyser Campus junior nursing students recently participated in a sepsis escape room to help them to learn how to make clinical judgments according to the patient's condition.
This week's Department of Medicine grand rounds will feature a presentation from Dr. Devan Makati on acute kidney injury and renal replacement therapy Friday (Feb. 11) at 8 a.m. on Zoom.