“Something I learned the other day,” says alumna Dani Johnson (BSN ’13; MS ’19), “was to always be ready for anything, even amidst a pandemic. We are always on the lookout for the typical COVID symptoms, and I had a patient come in that had shortness of breath and a couple other things. I ended up doing an EKG on this patient and realized this person was having an active heart attack! Not what I was expecting!” Pictured is Dr. Amy Hills (left), a provider working with Johnson (right) at a clinic in Central Colorado earlier in 2020.
Krista (Moore) Borrego, BSN ’12, was designated along with the nurses on her floor COVID-19 nurses at Denver Health Medical Center. “Though frightened, we all had a sense of duty: this is what we signed up for, to help others and to save lives. “The ‘healthcare hero,’ a mural by Austin Zucchini-Fowler in Denver, has shown us the silver lining and has become a symbol of hope in a desperate time for healthcare workers around the world. Here, I proudly stand with the hero and one of the many heroes of the next generation of nursing: my cousin, Cassidy Moore. [Cassidy is a junior nursing major at UWYO this year.] She is standing up headstrong, and brave. I could not be more proud of her and the fellow healthcare/nursing students who are watching this pandemic unfold — and yet, their minds are made up. Like so many of us, they were born to help. “Thank you to the Fay W, Whitney School of Nursing for teaching me my life’s passion and for providing education to the future of healthcare.”
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