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Vital signs great for School of Nursing
Junior nursing students experienced an eight-week clinical in the acute care unit at Froedtert Hospital, located on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center, WLC’s neighbor directly to its north. They’re shown with Amanda Passint, RN, MSN, CPNP, assistant professor of nursing.
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ive short years ago, Wisconsin Lutheran College launched a Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing program. This May, two men and eight women became the first WLC students to graduate with BSN degrees. Rebekah Carey, MSN, APNP, chair of the School of Nursing, acknowledged a lot of hard work. Above all, she humbly thanks God for blessing the nursing program’s development and success. “I think the thing that most clearly distinguishes our program and our students is the focus on Christ-centered nursing care,” Carey said. “We instruct, mentor, and encourage our students to approach their coursework, their clinicals, and their future profession from a Christian perspective.” “We require our students to keep journals during their clinicals,” said Sheryl Scott, MSN, RN, assistant professor of nursing. “Some of them do an incredible job of articulating the spiritual aspect of our program,” said Scott. “They realize that they can help people spiritually, so it’s a faithstrengthening experience, and often reminds them why they wanted to become a nurse in the first place.” “Another strength of our program,” Carey added, “is that all of our full-time faculty have clinical expertise and experience in a specific area of health care – geriatrics, pediatrics, primary care, and women’s health. That sets us apart from programs that have generalists teaching courses in emphasis areas. “Our program also offers coursework in every specialty area of the nursing profession,” said Carey. “Students experience acute and long term care – including time in the neurology
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Nursing students Andy Denzin (l) and Nathanael Rosenberg (r) traveled to Mwembezhi Lutheran Rural Health Center in Zambia last summer with the rest of their class. “It was so inspiring to hear a nurse say her job is not for the money or prestige, but because she believes she has a calling. In the same way I believe we have a calling to go out into the world and impact others,” a student wrote.
and transplant units – at Froedtert Hospital. They are at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and St. Joseph’s for clinicals in OB and pediatrics, and at St. Luke’s Medical Center serving in primary care externships. In geriatrics, our students have assignments at Luther Haven and two other retirement homes. And for mental health, we have our students in a rotation at Community Hospital in Menomonee Falls, working in its inpatient mental health unit, a setting many nursing programs do not include.”