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- University News Archive - ��Vlog��ý Little Rock /news-archive/tag/bsn/ ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:00:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 ��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s Riley, Snead honored in ‘40 Nurse Leaders Under 40’ /news-archive/2019/04/24/nurse-leaders/ Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:00:23 +0000 /news/?p=74108 ...]]> The Arkansas Center for Nursing has included two of University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s nursing instructors in its 40 Nurse Leaders Under 40. Elizabeth Riley and Leigh Ann Snead will be honored at a ceremony on Tuesday, April 30, at 1:30 p.m. at the Benton Event Center. Riley, 31, teaches Healthcare Economics, Nursing Informatics, and Research and Evidence-based Practice in Nursing. Before joining ��Vlog��ý Little Rock in 2016, she worked as a registered nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (��Vlog��ýMS). She’s been a registered nurse since 2010. “I feel that my real-world practice helps make me more relatable to our nursing students in understanding the daily goings-on in the patient care setting,” she said. “I also feel better connected to practice and policies as healthcare is continuously evolving.” Riley earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing and a Master of Science in nursing, both from ��Vlog��ýMS, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from American Sentinel University. She continues practicing on a PRN basis. “Leigh is an outstanding nurse educator, both in the classroom and simulation settings,” said Sloan Davidson, chair of ��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s nursing department. “She specializes in pediatrics and is excellent at designing creative ways to help the students see how pathophysiology drives what the nurse will see and then do for patients.” Snead has taught at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock since fall 2015 and currently teaches Pediatrics and Adult Medical Surgical II (classroom and simulation) and is the interim simulation director. She graduated from Baptist Health Schools with a RN diploma in 1999. She earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing from Arkansas Tech University in 2012, a Master of Science in nursing from the University of Central Arkansas (UCA) in 2015, and she is currently completing a Doctor of Nursing Practice at UCA. Snead has worked in the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and ; ��Vlog��ýMS Labor and Delivery; and the Arkansas Women’s Center OB/GYN clinic. “My experience has further stimulated my curiosity and creativity in the ways I teach complex concepts to students, especially in regards to pathophysiology,” Snead said. “Simulation allows me the avenue to provide hands-on teaching strategies and practice to help students develop clinical reasoning skills.” Snead has also taught at Southeast Arkansas College and Baptist Health Schools. “Riley, as we call her, is an excellent online educator in our RN-BSN program,” Davidson said. “She is diligent as a researcher, putting data to work for evidence-based practice in the clinical setting, but also in the education setting. We are blessed to have both of these young educators as faculty members.” The Arkansas Center for Nursing works to promote a culture of health for Arkansans by advancing nursing education, practice, leadership, and workforce development. This year’s 40 honorees were selected based on their commitment to excellence, service, outreach, leadership qualities, and their contributions to the advancement of the nursing profession. The complete list of 40 honorees is available on the . Riley and Snead also will be featured in the Arkansas Times’ May issue. ��Vlog��ý Little Rock nursing professors Leigh Snead, center, and Elizabeth Riley, right, have been recognized by the Arkansas Center for Nursing for excellence in nursung education. Snead also directs the nursing department’s simulation lab. Photo 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.]]>