■ Higher Education
Continued From Page 36
William Paterson University
By Dr. Venkat Sharma,
Dean, College of Science
and Health
Many of William Paterson’s
nearly 200 master’s, post-master’s
and doctoral nursing students,
who are licensed RNs, along with many
nursing alumni, have been on the front lines of
the COVID‐19 pandemic since its beginning.
They are acute care nurses, working in critical
care, emergency care, medical-surgical nursing
and other areas of nursing; some helped to turn
medical-surgical units into COVID units. The
epicenter this spring was in northern New Jersey
in Bergen and Essex counties, where many of
our nurses are employed. In addition to attending
classes and working full-time, many of our
graduate students volunteered at COVID‐19
screening centers in Wayne and Paterson, and
one doctoral student has been the lead training
volunteer for Newark’s new contact tracing
program. Our nursing department donated
masks, gloves and gowns to several hospitals
and nursing homes. The pandemic impacted
the curriculum as courses incorporated topics
such as prevention, social distancing, mode of
transmission, ventilator care, proning and experimental
medications into their discussions,
along with challenges nurses faced regarding
mental health. We are so incredibly proud of
these students, many of whom worked 12- to
16- hour days risking their lives while continuing
their studies online to earn their degrees.
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