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A group of nursing students meet for class in the Health Professions Center Sept. 7.

Nursing program expands with first fall cohort

Bryce West, Staff Writer September 8, 2022

The Fall 2022 nursing cohort made history as 20 students became the first fall nursing cohort in USI’s nursing program history. The College of Nursing and Health Professions has expanded the nursing...

Three Colleges Search for New Deans

Three Colleges Search for New Deans

Ian Young, Staff Writer March 17, 2022

The colleges of Nursing and Health Professions, Liberal Arts and the Romain College of Business are currently searching for deans after their former deans stepped down for various reasons in 2021. James...

Julie St. Clair, professor of nursing, briefs student nurses in the upper level of the Screaming Eagles Arena before the first vaccinations take place on campus. "You don't have to go fast," she said. "we want to facilitate things by moving through the process."

Students get the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine

Shelby Clark, Digital Editor April 7, 2021

  A student is going to hug her grandparents for the first time in over a year.  Riley Hays, a sophomore public relations and advertising major, received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine...

Learning to lead

Brandon Cole, Staff Writer October 19, 2016
After deciding to go back to school to finish my RN-BSN, I have decided to apply for my Master’s in Science in Nursing Management and Leadership. Through class and clinical I am learning what kind of a leader I want to be , but also attributes that I want to keep away from.
Senior forward Madi Vellky dribbles down the field during a game against Quincy University Oct. 18. Vellky recently was named Division II Women’s Soccer Academic All-District IV by the College sports Information Directors of America for the second time in her USI career.

‘Perfectionist’ named Academic All-District

Sarah Loesch November 9, 2015
“Basically what I'm looking for after graduation is to find a job I’m happy in,” Velky said. “I don’t think I can hate what I’m doing if I’m (in) nursing.”
Manager hopes for health center's central location

Manager hopes for health center’s central location

Zackary Willem September 16, 2015
Health Center Practice Manager Brandy Sitzman hopes to have a larger health center centrally located on campus

Perrey to recieve national neuroscience nursing award

Sarah Loesch February 2, 2015

A 2008 USI graduate, Lauren Perrey, was selected to receive the 2015 Rising Star in Clinical Practice Award from the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. She currently works at IU Health Methodist...

A Day in the Intensive Care Unit

Devyn Curry January 28, 2014

Kelsey Strahla wakes up at 4:45 a.m. for her critical care clinical, which begins at 6:30 at Deaconess Gateway Hospital. The senior nursing major is assigned to a nurse and looks over a patient’s...

USI nursing students have leg up

Devyn Curry January 28, 2014

CORRECTION: Admission to the nursing program is based solely on grade point average, said Sarah Stevens, director of advising in the College of Nursing and Health Professions. If two students' GPAs...

USI proposes tuition increases, program fees

Shannon Hall June 4, 2013

Students who began their education at USI in the fall semester of 2010 have experienced an 11-percent tuition increase since they stepped foot on campus, and they're looking at another spike before their...

DEUs connect USI students with local hospital staff, patients

Shannon Hall April 24, 2013

The College of Nursing and Health Professions is living up to USI’s motto “Get the Edge” by adding a second dedicated education unit (DEU) for nursing students to utilize. The nursing program began...

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