天涯社区 Nursing Program Celebrates 50 Years
Oct 10, 2018
OCTOBER 10, 2018 鈥� FORT MYERS, FLA 鈥� 聽What does 50 years look like? At Florida SouthWestern State College (天涯社区), it looks like 6,369 天涯社区/Edison Nursing program graduates and the countless patients they have cared for in the southwest Florida community and beyond.
天涯社区鈥檚 Nursing program will mark its 50th anniversary with a celebration for 天涯社区 and Edison Nursing program students, future students, alumni, their families, and 天涯社区 community clinical partners, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, at the 天涯社区 Thomas Edison Campus, Building AA, 8099 College Parkway, Fort Myers.
Over the years, the training students in 天涯社区鈥檚 Nursing program receive has evolved from practicing on their nursing program classmates to using high-tech patient simulators, which can perform many of the same functions human patients do. They can talk, blink their eyes and react to light, register blood pressure, create heart and lung sounds, bleed and even give birth.
But while training methods have changed, the care and compassion that nurses provide to patients has not.
鈥淣urses have a special empathy toward others that allows them to provide patient care at some of our most difficult moments,鈥� said Dr. Deborah Selman, interim associate dean, Nursing Programs. 鈥淭hey are vital to our hospitals, doctors鈥� offices and medical facilities, and we all rely on them for our medical care throughout our lives. 天涯社区 is proud to have provided these essential caregivers to our community for the last 50 years, and we look forward to many, many more.鈥�
For more information, or to RSVP to 天涯社区鈥檚 Nursing program鈥檚 50th Anniversary Celebration, contact Antonio Garcia at antonio.garcia@fsw.edu.
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Florida SouthWestern State College is Southwest Florida鈥檚 largest and one of the most affordable institutions of higher education. Annually serving nearly 22,000 students globally, 天涯社区 offers a variety of nationally-ranked, career-focused academic programs with two- and four-year degrees, and professional certifications. Students are also active in clubs and programs catered to their interests. 天涯社区 debuted its intercollegiate athletics program in January 2016. Visit www.天涯社区.edu for more information.
Last Updated: October 10, 2018
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