Over fifty nursing students attended the Utah Student Nurses' Association (SNA) Convention on Saturday March 1, 2025 at the Wilkinson Student Center on BYU Campus. The event was one of the largest of its kind with around 200 students from across the state attending.
The fourth floor of the Kimball tower was abuzz with students and alumni from the BYU College of Nursing putting diapers, toothpaste, socks, and even soccer balls into kits. These supplies will be sent with the students on their Global & Population Health Nursing Clinical Practicums this coming spring and distributed to the people they will serve.
Calvin Reed fell in love with emergency medicine and emergency preparedness after volunteering as an EMT. His time in BYU College of Nursing gave him opportunities to expound on his passion through orchestrating multiple Mass Casualty Drills, research, etc. As a recent graduate from the program, he is excited to continue and grow a career based in emergency nursing.
The BYU Family Compassion & Care Lab, led by College of Nursing professor Dr. Christine Platt, has done extensive research about the role foster siblings have in caring for brothers and sisters with complex medical needs. Now, they're seeking to provide better training to parents and siblings of foster children to fortify their physical and emotional health.
Emma Dahl’s capstone project is not your average clinical training with BYU College of Nursing. She is working in a rural community hospital in Blanding, Utah where she has worked in more than one unit of the hospital: ER, med-surge, and obstetrics.
Recent College of Nursing graduate Shane Burt had many powerful experiences during his time at BYU. Read about the lessons he learned in the program and the great work he'll be doing as an RN.
Dr. Marie Prothero of BYU College of Nursing researches what causes nursing errors, how nurses react to them, and what methods of teaching nursing students to proactively avoid them work best.
In January, BYU Family Nurse Practitioner students were special guests in the Utah State Capitol. Sitting with their local representatives and senators, they learned about the impact they can have on healthcare legislation.
