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Parker Smith

Email: pbs36@byu.edu
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Preparing to Be Healer’s: Nursing Alumni and Students Assemble Health Kits Together

Parker Smith
By 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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By 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

Parker Smith
By 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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By 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

Spencer Adolphson
By Spencer Adolphson
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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Your Whole Heart: Alumna Julia Dushku Wins DAISY Award

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By Parker Smith
February 06, 2025 12:48 PM
Julia Dushku, a BYU Nursing alumni working at Primary Children’s, found herself assigned to help a patient needing end-of-life care. Since she works as a floating nurse throughout the hospital, she is used to these types of shifts. What she didn’t know was that this experience would be one of the most memorable of her career.
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Dr. Shelly Reed Named a Fulbright Specialist

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By Parker Smith
January 28, 2025 11:59 AM
This past week, Dr. Shelly Reed, Associate Teaching Professor at BYU College of Nursing received word that she had been appointed as a Fulbright Specialist in nursing education.
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BYU College of Nursing Welcomes its New Cohort

Parker Smith
By Parker Smith
January 27, 2025 04:38 PM
Excited and eager to learn about their next steps in the program, new nursing students gathered in their new student orientation.
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2024 DAISY Award Winners: Cynthia Johnson and Otavio Tobias

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By Parker Smith
December 17, 2024 11:56 AM
The BYU College of Nursing and The DAISY Foundation present awards to students and faculty every year honoring exceptional compassion in nursing. Recipients are nominated because of the difference they’ve made in the lives of those they teach or provide care for. This year, Professor Cynthia Johnson and nursing student Otavio Tobias (BS ’24) were honored with DAISY awards.
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