Category Archives: COVID19

  As a PhD student and teaching assistant at UCF’s College of Nursing, Valorie MacKenna solved an important problem when the pandemic hit. How to move hands-on simulation classes online. 90.7 WMFE spoke with MacKenna, who graduated this past weekend, about what that virtual education looked like and whether it’s the future of healthcare instruction. […]

While the pandemic canceled study abroad trips this spring, global health education continued for UCF nursing students thanks to innovative instructors.     Under the guidance of interpreters and two faculty members, a group of 10 undergraduate nursing students practiced how to provide pre-, intra- and post-operative care to medically underserved patients in rural Peru. It is what the students would have […]

  In the new issue of Pegasus magazine, UCF College of Nursing alumnus Stephen Brennan ’15BSN, a certified emergency nurse, discusses traveling to Queens, New York — the worst-hit area in the United States — to help during COVID-19.   Read More

When the world needed nurses more than ever, you rose to the challenge of COVID-19. “Our health care system and frontline professionals have been challenged in ways we never imagined possible,” says Annette Bourgault, assistant professor at the UCF College of Nursing and editor at Critical Care Nurse, the journal of the American Association of […]

  Jeff Kepler ’11, a graphic designer, used his creativity to honor heroes around the world, including Anthony King ’14BSN ’17MSN, a nurse caring for COVID-19 patients in New York City.   Read More

Jason A. Duprat ’09BSN has always pushed himself out of his comfort zone, and his current deployment with the U.S. Navy Reserve to the COVID-19 hot spot in New York City is no different. Read More

Duty has already called for Capt. Paul Kohler ’20MSN, whose graduate nursing degree is being put to the test five miles up and 5,000 miles away from home. Read More

A UCF nursing doctoral student is using her experience with research to develop hundreds of masks for local nurses and fellow Knights. Read More

College of Nursing Assistant Professor Frank Guido-Sanz balances roles as professor, ICU nurse and National Disaster Medical System team member during the coronavirus pandemic. Read More

A National Nurses Day spotlight on DNP Student Kellie Chapman, who uses her experience as a nurse to train others in Brevard County hospital emergency rooms. Read More