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- University News Archive - ��Vlog��ý Little Rock /news-archive/tag/bachelor-of-science-in-nursing/ ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Fri, 12 Apr 2019 22:15:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Taste of Little Rock draws record crowd, raises $100,000 /news-archive/2019/04/12/taste-of-little-rock-2/ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 22:15:18 +0000 /news/?p=74039 ...]]> Taste of Little Rock set new records this year, with nearly 800 people attending and more than $100,000 raised for student scholarships. Visitors were treated to tamales from , perfectly plated beef medallions with mashed potato from Arthur’s, melt-in-your-mouth sweets from , frozen treats from and many other cuisines provided by this year’s 33 vendors. served a seafood pasta that won over the crowd and earned the restaurant the “Best of Taste” designation for the second year in a row. “This was by far the most highly attended Taste of Little Rock yet,” said Ryan Miller, director of the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Alumni Association. “We are excited that this event continues to grow and have an impact on student scholarships.” The event raised just over $100,000 for student scholarships.

“This event wouldn’t happen without our volunteers,” Miller said. “Mauri Douglass has been the longtime chair of this event, and we wouldn’t be successful without her guidance. Stephanie Caruthers stepped in to serve as co-chair, and we look forward to her leadership in the coming year. Additionally, the Alumni Board and Taste of Little Rock committee put in countless hours securing sponsors and restaurants to make the event a success, and we had more than 75 student volunteers.” This year’s Taste of Little Rock paid tribute to Arkansas Heart Hospital CEO Bruce Murphy for his longtime support of ��Vlog��ý Little Rock and his work to impact the health of Arkansans. Murphy, who graduated from ��Vlog��ý Little Rock in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science, has been a longtime supporter of ��Vlog��ý Little Rock. Last year, he gave $800,000 to the College of Education and Health Professions. That gift helps support the Student Success Initiatives Fund, which provides academic tutoring and mentoring to students as well as a full-time social worker to assist students. On April 3, the night before Taste of the Little Rock, ��Vlog��ý Little Rock hosted a small reception honoring Dr. Murphy. Sloan Davidson, director of the nursing department, told Dr. Murphy that her students have benefited tremendously from having access to a social worker. Nursing is ��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s largest major, with more than 400 students enrolled in associate degree programs and another 400 in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. “Many students have life issues, and their financial need is tremendous,” she said. “A majority are first-generation, and oftentimes they work multiple jobs to get through school to better themselves and their families.” Davidson has had students who have dealt with the death of a spouse and a child. “Having resources to help them get through that and have access to mental health care makes all the difference,” she said. “This gift has been a godsend for our program and our students.” The Student Success Initiatives fund includes emergency funds that have been used to help students in desperate situations. “We’ve been able to help students renew their electricity and prevent them from being evicted. We’ve had homeless students we’ve been able to get housing for. It’s just been more than we could ever ask for, and we so appreciate it,” Davidson told Dr. Murphy. Those kinds of resources often mean the difference between students dropping out of school or finishing a degree that will help them get a job with which they can support themselves and their families. ‘“It’s also adding a nurse to our community, where we currently have a nursing shortage,” Davidson said. Murphy said he felt honored by his alma mater. “I believe that I have a debt to pay to for where I am,” he said. “My expectation when I began this was not that I’d be where I am today. I know it is because I was blessed by my Lord, blessed by the education I got, and I was very blessed by the people who helped me and became role models for me, who were the motivators and molders that gave me the opportunity to stay on the road and not the shoulder.” Top right photo: A Taste of Little Rock attendee samples edamame quinoa salad preapred by Arkansas Heart Hospital. Above left: ��Vlog��ý Little Rock student volunteers sample frozen treats from LePop, one of this year’s vendors at Taste of Little Rock. Photos by Benjamin Krain ]]> ��Vlog��ý Little Rock nursing students save man’s life /news-archive/2019/01/14/lifesaver/ Mon, 14 Jan 2019 17:06:55 +0000 /news/?p=73098 ...]]> Two first-year nursing students at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock saved a man’s life Friday at a North Little Rock gym because they were able to quickly administer CPR and give other life-saving help in the crucial moments before paramedics arrived. Megan Crawley, 23, had gone to the North Little Rock Athletic Club on Friday, Jan. 11, to work out. She arrived at 10:45 a.m., just seconds after 67-year-old Charles Rainey collapsed. People were yelling for a doctor, and a man asked Crawley if she knew one in the building. “I said I was a nursing student, and a man told me, ‘You have to go! There’s no one else back there,’” Crawley said. Crawley ran over to Rainey and couldn’t find his pulse. She saw that he was turning blue, checked his airway, and saw that his tongue was swollen and knew he wasn’t getting air. She began giving Rainey breaths, while Jessica McCrary, the general manager of the Athletic Club, started compressions. Ryan Ruff, another full-time ��Vlog��ý Little Rock nursing student who works at the front desk of the athletic club, got an automated external defibrillator and charged it. He’s also a medic in the National Guard. “We put the pads on him and shocked him,” Crawley said. “It [the AED] told us to keep doing CPR, so I started doing compressions, and Ryan did breaths.” Crawley’s boyfriend, Evan Gardner, who is a nursing student at Baptist Health, stood ready to take over when Crawley or Ruff became fatigued from the CPR. Crawley had administered 90 compressions when Rainey made a noise. She checked and found his pulse and then she and Ruff rolled him onto his left side to wait for medics. Rainey was awake and talking when medics arrived. “It was definitely shocking,” Crawley said. “I’m so glad I did what I needed to do and glad I had the courage to do it, but afterward I couldn’t stop shaking.” After the incident, Crawley and Gardner stayed at the gym to exercise, and a police officer returned to get a report. “He told us that the doctors said that had we not been there, he would have died,” she said. She and Gardner visited Rainey at Baptist Health Medical Center-North Little Rock on Sunday, Jan. 13, and learned that Rainey had suffered sudden cardiac arrest in the gym. On Monday, Jan. 14, Rainey had three stents placed and said he expects to be released Monday afternoon. “I feel amazing right now,” Rainey said from his hospital room. Rainey said he had decided to run the three-quarters of a mile from his home to the gym Friday morning, rather than drive, because his truck was being worked on. “I felt slight angina during the run, but nothing I hadn’t felt before,” he recalled. “As I started to cool down, I felt a bit of dizziness. I walked in and was standing next to a pipe, and I started sliding down to the floor. I was flatlined when Megan attended me. “She’s a sweet girl,” Rainey said of Crawley. “She apparently was very efficient and jumped right on it, and Ryan had charged the AED. It worked out very well.” Crawley credits ��Vlog��ý Little Rock nursing instructor Joanna Rostad-Hall for preparing her for Friday’s emergency. “She was the one who taught my CPR class,” she said. “If it wasn’t for Mrs. Rostad-Hall and God, I don’t know what I would’ve done.” All of ��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s nursing students are required to be Basic Life Support (BLS) certified to be in the nursing program. The ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Nursing Department offers certification and recertification courses several times a year. The certifications cover recognition of cardiac arrest, CPR, AEDs, ventilation, and choking for adults and infants, Rostad-Hall said. Crawley is in the Associate of Applied Science in Nursing program and plans to continue her education and get a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing. Ruff is in the Bachelor of Science nursing program. Needless to say, ��Vlog��ý Little Rock nursing faculty are extremely proud of both Crawley and Ruff. “We truly do have some amazing future nurses in our program,” Rostad-Hall said.]]> Haire looking forward to bright future as travel nurse /news-archive/2018/08/07/tanner-haire/ Tue, 07 Aug 2018 14:00:42 +0000 /news/?p=71287 ...]]> For sophomore Tanner Haire, a city the size of Little Rock was the perfect place to attend college. He has family in Arkadelphia, but prefers the vibe of a larger city since he grew up in San Antonio. Haire enrolled at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock in August 2017 and is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and is on track to graduate in 2021. He comes from a family of college-educated professionals. His father, Darrell Morrison, is an associate vice chancellor for finance at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, and his mother, Kelli Morrison, works at the University of Texas San Antonio. His older siblings both work in healthcare. His sister is a nurse, and his brother is a physician’s assistant in the U.S. Army. “Seeing what they do interested me,” Haire said. “I’ve always wanted to be a travel nurse and go around the country. If I don’t end up doing that, I’d like to work in an emergency room.”

As a freshman, Haire took mainly core classes. He took chemistry this summer, so that he can start taking nursing classes this fall. One of his favorite classes was Anatomy and Physiology with Dr. Jeremy Chamberlain. “He made it interesting, and he’s super energetic,” Haire said. While college can be a huge adjustment, Haire found campus life relaxing and the academic workload manageable. “The biggest part was coming from high school and having someone remind you every day to not having someone telling you what to do,” he said. Although he lives off-campus, he stays connected with with campus organizations. He’s a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, works in Student Affairs at the help desk, and serves on the Student Alumni Board, which assists the Alumni Association with fundraisers such as Burgers at Bailey and Taste of Little Rock. “I’ve been able to meet people from all over the campus,” he said.]]>