Community support builds simulation center to educate, train future health care providers For Stacy Cousins, the sight of the infant having a seizure was dramatic. “The baby was shaking and turning blue,” the senior nursing student said. “It felt like we were right there in the hospital.” Instead, she and fellow nursing students were learning […]
The School of Nursing’s Simulation Center & Clinical Learning Lab offers a wide variety of hospital and home health environments, including: Trauma center – modeled after University Health System’s facility; two trauma exam rooms and one trauma emergency care room Intensive care unit – two rooms constructed as a replica of new construction at […]
Construction of the 7, 281-square-foot Simulation Center & Clinical Learning Lab began in 2010 and was completed in spring 2012, with $3.9 million in funding from the following: $1 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration; $850,000 from Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas (MHM). This gift is a portion of a $3.9 million […]
Teaching and nursing were Ruth Ann Baldwin’s life. Baldwin, who earned her bachelor’s (1979) and master’s (1985) degrees in nursing from the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, later taught clinical skills in the School of Nursing for 15 years, retiring in 2001. “She took her work very seriously,” said longtime colleague, Willie Hayak, M.S.N., […]
Receiving the 2012 Alumna of the Year award from the Department of Dental Hygiene is not only a major professional achievement, but one that brings special pride to Diana Cudeii, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. Having grown up on a reservation in Shiprock, N.M., known as the “Four Corners” of the Southwest, Cudeii […]
She wants to do more for patients, which is why Laura Ibañez is following in her mother’s footsteps to become a nurse. Ibañez’s high ambitions motivated her to be among the first to inquire about the School of Nursing’s new 15-month bachelor’s degree program that is tailored for students who hold a degree in another […]
Since University Health System agreed to contribute $750,000 toward the School of Nursing’s Clinical Simulation Center, the Economic Development Administration announced a $1 million grant to fund Phase 2 of the project. Phase 2 will include an ambulatory surgical unit, pediatric unit, a birthing suite and mother and baby suite. Additional funds for the project […]
When the phone rings in pediatric and neonatal transport units of San Antonio area hospitals, chances are good that a UT Health Science Center respiratory care alumnus will be called upon to help save a life. Respiratory therapists work as part of a hospital’s medical team, providing care during transport for critically ill or injured […]
10 years of excellence 1995 School of Health Professions (SHP) begins participating in a collaborative Physician Assistant Studies (PAS) program with the U.S. Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. Students receive classroom instruction through the Army and complete clinical rotations through the SHP. They graduate with a certificate of completion from the Army […]
When McAllen native Darrell Alviar was leaving the military, he drew on his background as a Navy corpsman to seek his civilian profession. “It was a natural progression. I had already been seeing patients and dispensing medications,” he said, in a Marine Corps Infantry Unit in Iraq and Afghanistan. Alviar will be entering the Physician […]