Magazine Archive
College launches new online health care and nursing options
Saint Joseph's has launched an online program in Catholic health care leadership and launched two graduate nursing degrees that partner with either health administration or business administration. Catholic health care leadership program
Alumna journeys to China
Talk with Deb Kramlich '09 by Peggy Roberts
One tough unit:
Caring for premature and critically ill infants is emotionally demanding by Charmaine Daniels Shannon Bourgault ’03 ha...
Talk with Andrew Wasowski ’11
Andrew Wasowski '11 of Windham, Maine, was recruited by the Marine Corps in high school. At age 18, he found himself in boot camp, which was followed by th...
Anatomy of a free clinic
After working more than 20 years as a nurse, Patricia Leavitt’s dream was to start a free clinic for people without health insurance. But along with passionate commitment, it took leadership, determination, networking, dollars, an eye for accounting and the ability to schm...
SimMan goes high-tech in Mercy Hall
During a recent renovation to the nursing facilities in Mercy Hall, a Simulation Man lab upgrade was constructed with improved...
“Not a dry eye in the house” during nurse pinning ceremony
Erin Reeber of Topsham, Maine, and her parents experience the pride and joy of the nurse pinning ceremony. For a senior nursing stud...
New “man” on campus
Teaching tool simulates real patient Nursing student Jessica Frechette ’09 of Sanford, Maine, checks SimMan’s h...
On the front lines with the avian flu
Professor Sharon Martin gets proactive Last summer professor Sharon Martin was preparing for her Community Health Nursing cour...
Patients, not customers
“Basically, ultimately, essentially, nursing is relationship.”
Moe O'Rourke ’80 takes a very personal approach to healing
Through many years of working as a nursing professor, Maureen O'Rourke '80 has learned that cancer patients can ?nd healing in unlikely places. Thai restaurants, for example.
Lunch break as radical notion?
“So much skill and knowledge goes in to what we’re doing. Anything I can do toward the advancement of the nursing profession – role modeling for patients and staff and helping to articulate our profession – is important to me.”
Larry Messner: portrait of a leader
Never compromise your values. Do take care of your people and help them succeed. Larry Messner of Las Vegas teaches the first course, Leadership in Health Care Administration, and the last course, Applied Management Capstone Project, for graduate students in the Saint Joseph’s ma...
Inviting nurses to the table
As nurses take on leadership roles, they could change the health care landscape: A look at the future of nursing and its impact on patients
