Nursing Articles

While anxiety is the most prevalent mental health concern, research indicates that nurses do not feel adequately prepared to care for anxious patients. With that fact in mind, Assistant Dean of Nursing & Health Sciences Tanae A. Traister recently researched the use of virtual reality simulation in nursing education to help lessen nursing students’ own anxiety in dealing with anxious patients.

Pennsylvania College of Technology is admitting students to its new post-master’s certificate in nursing education for the Summer 2024 term.

Penn College recently hosted 20 members of the Pennsylvania Wing Civil Air Patrol's STEM Academy, who saw firsthand how those interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics can follow seamless pathways to satisfying professions.

Pennsylvania College of Technology recently presented DAISY Awards, which recognize nursing excellence, to a student who showed compassion to an infant patient and to a member of the college’s nursing faculty, who was recognized for her caring attitude toward students.

Pennsylvania College of Technology bachelor’s degree nursing students – all slated to graduate this month – recently presented capstone projects that not only tied together their final three courses but also resulted in research-based innovations – some marketable, all usable in critical care settings.

After a three-year hiatus due to COVID-19, People & Culture enthusiastically welcomed back the children of faculty and staff for national “Take Your Son or Daughter to Work Day.”

The Penn College Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, the international honor society for nurses, recently hosted a professional development session in Penn’s Inn with Special Agent Alan McGill, of the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.

With eyes on the sky and a wide range of career options, Pennsylvania College of Technology’s emergency management & homeland security major staged its inaugural Wildcat Rotorfest on April 11.

A cultural interchange between Pennsylvania College of Technology and visitors from North West Regional College in Northern Ireland – a two-week whirlwind that was five years in the making – came to a close with memories indelibly shared and lives irrevocably altered.

The funeral will be Friday for Mary E. Erdman, a Penn College alumna and a retired member of its nursing faculty, who died Thursday, March 9, at the age of 65.