New Nursing Department faculty member Susan Rasmussen says Christian nurses have a duty to people who are sick and dying, both physically and spiritually. “I see Christian nurses as being salt and light in a part of society that reaches everyone,” said Rasmussen, who has nearly 25 years of nursing and health education experience. She [Continue Reading...]
Download the PDF version here Peter Thompson’s most enduring memory from his August 2012 trip to Ireland won’t be of castles or clover fields or folk music. Thompson (’12) instead will think back on the Reformers Unanimous meeting he attended in Bray, and his conversation with an Irishman who fully realized how much he needed [Continue Reading...]
Download the PDF version here Maranatha’s Nursing Department is now one of a kind. The College received notification Oct. 11 that it has been accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the nation’s primary accreditation agency for nursing colleges and schools. Maranatha now has the distinction of being the only fundamental Christian college [Continue Reading...]
Maranatha’s Nursing Department is now one of a kind. The College received notification Oct. 11 that it has been accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the nation’s primary accreditation agency for nursing colleges and schools. Maranatha now has the distinction of being the only fundamental Christian college with overall institutional regional accreditation [Continue Reading...]
Junior Nursing major Rachel Blanton says she has always had a special place in her heart for missions. Her experiences during a Global Encounters missions trip to Albania, however, gave Blanton “a broader perspective on the needs of people.” An Operation Renewed Hope team sought to meet some of those needs May 17-28 in the [Continue Reading...]
Maranatha nursing students may be surprised this fall to meet a small family living in the Dining Complex’s bottom floor. Pediatric and infant simulators affectionately nicknamed “Kid Kasey” and “Baby Micah” have joined adult medical simulator “Hal” in the Nursing Department’s educational family. The newest medical mannequins arrived in mid-May. “Hal,” in his mock hospital [Continue Reading...]
See Graduation photo galleries here Leah Nagel just seems to have a way with cranky people. “Leah can talk even the most bitter man into doing just about anything,” Maranatha Nursing Department Chair Kelly Crum said of Nagel, named winner of the Florence Nightingale Best Bedside Nurse Award during Thursday morning’s Nurse Pinning Ceremony. “She [Continue Reading...]
Many Maranatha students gathered around their circle of friends on a sunny Monday after spring break, gushing with excitement to share their stories about sleeping in, ignoring homework, and visiting family. Senior Timothy McKinney’s spring break stories were more unusual. For example, he helped deliver a baby in the middle of the night. And, if [Continue Reading...]
Maranatha’s Nursing Department took a step toward its goal of full accreditation recently when the program was granted approval by the Wisconsin Board of Nursing. Four Board members visited campus Nov. 17, and Nursing Department Chair Kelly Crum received written notification of the approval Dec. 12. “The Board members who visited were very complimentary of [Continue Reading...]
Bobby Hargrove and his wife, Betty, decided they could best honor the memory of their daughter-in-law by helping those like her. “She was a fantastic nurse,” Bobby Hargrove said of Christina “Tina” Hargrove. “We wanted to see nurses come into the profession who would treat patients and their families like Tina did. We thought that [Continue Reading...]