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Nearly 30 students from the Mount Saint Mary College Nurse Practitioner program were honored at the Spring 2024 semester white coat ceremony on Friday, May 10. The graduates’ white coats were presented to them by their chosen family members, from spouses…

Nursing majors from Mount Saint Mary College’s Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD) program recently discussed healthy heart habits with more than a dozen students of San Miguel Academy in Newburgh. In addition to a discussion on how to keep one’s heart…

Mount Saint Mary College alumnae Elizabeth Scannell-Desch ’72, PhD, RN, OCNS, FAAN (right) and her twin sister, Mary Ellen Doherty ’72, PhD, RN, CNM (left) discussed their studies on posttraumatic growth.   Mount Saint Mary College Nursing alumnae Elizabeth…

Nursing majors from Mount Saint Mary College’s Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD) program recently discussed healthy heart habits with the students of Nora Cronin Presentation Academy (NCPA) in Newburgh. In addition to a discussion on how to keep one…

Carol Wanyo, assistant professor of Nursing at Mount Saint Mary College, recently earned the Coin of Excellence Award for providing Influenza shots to Cadets at West Point Military Academy.  Wanyo received the West Point Military Academy/Keller Army…

Mount Saint Mary College Nursing student and softball player Riley Norwood of East Haven, Conn. will graduate in May of 2024, and has already secured a job at Yale New Haven Hospital.   It’s still weeks before she’s scheduled to receive her diploma…

Mount Saint Mary College’s Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD) program hosted “The Opioid Epidemic: A Public Health Crisis,” a workshop for students and faculty, on Wednesday, March 27. Michelle Tingson-Prego, an Area Health Education Center Scholar and…

Local children recently learned the ins and outs of medical care at a Fuzzy Friends Clinic, staffed by Mount Saint Mary College Nursing students and held at the Newburgh Free Library in Newburgh, N.Y. The Mount has hosted several Fuzzy Friends Clinics…

Mount Saint Mary College Nursing alumnae Elizabeth Scannell-Desch ’72, PhD, RN, OCNS, FAAN and her twin sister, Mary Ellen Doherty ’72, PhD, RN, CNM, will present “Journey to a Book: Women’s Journeys to Posttraumatic Growth” on Tuesday, April 23 at 9…

Mount Saint Mary College Nursing major Kylie Dragonetti of Massapequa, N.Y., seen here in the college’s theatre, will graduate on Saturday, May 18.   COVID-19 cases in the United States were on an uptick when Kylie Dragonetti of Massapequa, N.Y. began…