Nursing & Health Sciences Articles

Umbrellas were the most coveted accessory, but nowhere near as essential as the information that visitors to Pennsylvania College of Technology's Fall Open House carried home.

Students in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Physical Therapist Assistant Club harvested a plentiful crop to benefit The Cupboard at Penn College, an on-campus food pantry that assists students and their families. The club initiated a 10-day food drive to coincide with the American Physical Therapy Association’s Global PT Day-of-Service, observed Oct.

The students are taking a variety of items to donate, including Penn College hand sanitizer and backpacks, toothbrushes, children’s books, hair ties and sunglasses. The adventurous group (from left): Rene Ramirez, Maggie K. Calkins, Glendalis Guadarrama, Christine B. Kavanagh, Mikaila E. Lugo-Schlegel and Sarah J. Schick. The group will take an assortment of educational items.

The college’s Dental Hygiene Clinic takes on a new hue as students and faculty don pink gowns for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Penn College’s dental hygiene program helped to promote National Breast Cancer Awareness Month this week.

More than 900 high schoolers, hailing from 28 school districts, spent Thursday on campus for the College Transitions Office’s Career Day. Faculty and students from all six of the college’s academic schools and all three campuses spent their Fall Break day off providing close to 50 career-exploration sessions for the visitors, exposing them to dozens of the college’s “degrees that work” offerings.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has much to celebrate during 2017’s National Physician Assistant Week. An initiative of the American Academy of PAs, National PA Week takes place Oct. 6-12 each year.

Penn College’s Nursing Education Center was the site on Monday for Lycoming County School Nurses Professional Development Day.

Lyndsey Diehl, who received a bachelor’s degree in health information management online in 2013, secured the position of trauma data quality specialist with the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation. Joseph Travagline had a healthy career in IT before seeking work in health care.

Under the watch of Barbie D. Harbaugh, instructor of nursing, Bryce J. Merrill administers a flu shot to Kaitlyn E. Miller, a student in applied health studies, radiography concentration. Kaitlyn L. Andersen, of Mastic, N.Y., enrolled in the Fundamentals of Nursing course, swabs the arm of classmate Emily L. Tashner-Thompson, of Muncy. Jessica M.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s surgical technology major is joining hospitals and colleges throughout the country in celebrating National Surgical Technologists Week, Sept. 17-23. National Surgical Technologists Week is a promotional event of the Association of Surgical Technologists to celebrate those who work in the field.