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Creating POIEMA
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he new Academic Success Center provides services to enhance students’ learning and academic success. The Career Development Center organizes internship opportunities for students and helps them explore academic majors and graduate school options. Together these areas are now known as Poiema, which is defined as “workmanship; that which has been made.” Poiema is about helping students fully realize and understand how they are God’s workmanship and that they are being prepared to be Christian leaders.
Director of career and field services Thad Jahns (right) and professor Rhoda Wolle (left), who serves as director of the new Academic Success Center, now have offices in the Marvin M. Schwan Library.
Patient simulators arrive in new nursing lab
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his fall, a cohort of 14 nursing students officially began its journey toward receiving WLC’s first Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees in May 2012. With the donation of two hospital beds from local healthcare facilities and a grant from an anonymous donor, development of a nursing lab is under way. The lab, which will be housed in the lower level of the Science Hall, will give nursing students valuable hands-on experience. Five moderate-fidelity human patient simulators recently arrived. These computerized simulators allow students to take vital signs, hear heart and lung sounds, care for wounds, and set up IVs. Via remote control, instructors can change the “patient’s” condition to see how students respond.
Freshmen James Schmidt and Sarah Safranski help director of nursing Rebekah Carey unpack new human patient simulators. These will be a vital part of nursing education once the nursing lab is ready in January 2010.
“These simulators are generations beyond CPR mannequins,” said director of nursing Rebekah Carey. “They offer valuable experience in a state-of-the-art lab, and will help our students tremendously when they begin conducting their hands-on clinicals in the fall of 2010.”
Board, faculty & staff recognition
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he college’s Board of Regents, chaired by Gary Drska (pictured), met in September, at which time four new members joined the board. They are Ryan Barbieri, Christ Lutheran Church, Pewaukee, Wisconsin; Rev. Jeff Gunn, CrossWalk Lutheran Church, Phoenix; Dan Stefferud, Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Los Angeles; and Andrew Unkefer, CrossWalk Lutheran Church, Phoenix. Board members who have recently retired after serving two terms also were thanked and recognized. They are Bill Felsing, Phil Hoyer, John Pahmeier, and Jim Reinert.
During the Board of Regents weekend, the following faculty and staff members were honored for their years of service. Five years: Dr. Erik Ankerberg, Dr. Robert Balza Jr., Prof. Paul
Burmeister, Dr. Stacy Hoehl, Klay Knueppel, Dr. John Kolander, Lisa Leffel, John Meyer, Dave Ross, Dr. David Schulz. Ten years: Dr. Jarrod Erbe, Mike Fossum, Joe Hennen, Diane
Hoehnke, Kris Metzger, Jeff Nagel, Prof. Terry Treuden. Fifteen years: Dr. James Nowack, Dr. Leanne Olson, Steve Travis. Twenty years: Prof. Deborrah Uecker. Twenty-five years: Dr. Mel Friske. Wisconsin Lutheran College | 5