
Parker Smith
Email: pbs36@byu.edu
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Graduate Spotlight: Kate Blaine
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Parker Smith
April 21, 2025 09:53 AM
Kate Blaine’s experience in BYU College of Nursing is different than the average student. Beyond training to be a nurse, she is also a member of the Army National Guard. She had to balance military training on the weekend with nursing classes during each week and made the most of both!
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Graduate Spotlight: Ambar Cortez
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Parker Smith
April 17, 2025 11:13 AM
Ambar Cortez, a recent graduate from BYU College of Nursing shares stories about how her time in clinicals helping a child with Down syndrome and caring for a patient in the ICU shaped her view of nursing and taught her the Healer's art.
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BYU Student Nurses Connect with Middle Schoolers at BYU STEM Event
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Parker Smith
April 07, 2025 01:55 PM
At one of the busiest and most interactive tables at the recent Discover STEM event at the BYU Wilkinson Student Center, young middle schoolers lined up eager to learn about nursing. Volunteers from the BYU’s Spanish for Nurses Club manned the booth and had scenarios for the visitors to practice.
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BYU Hosts Utah SNA Convention
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Parker Smith
April 03, 2025 11:21 AM
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.
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Preparing to Be Healer’s: Nursing Alumni and Students Assemble Health Kits Together
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Parker Smith
April 01, 2025 12:40 PM
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.
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Graduate Spotlight: Calvin Reed
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Parker Smith
March 21, 2025 10:25 AM
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.
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A New Level of Caring: Emma Dahl’s Capstone Experience in a Rural Hospital
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Parker Smith
March 18, 2025 12:48 PM
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.
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Do Nursing Mistakes Make or Break a Nurse? Dr. Marie Prothero’s Research on Medical Errors
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Parker Smith
March 06, 2025 12:11 PM
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.
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An Hour in Their Shoes: How Poverty Simulations Are Shaping Compassionate Nurses
February 18, 2025 01:46 PM
The College of Nursing recently carried out the annual Poverty Simulation, giving students an increased understanding of the day-to-day difficulties poverty brings individuals and families
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