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 NWD student from Highland, N.Y., and Kayleigh Madormo, senior program coordinator of the Catskill Hudson Area Health Education Center, led the workshop.
They discussed evidence-based public health strategies to address the opioid crisis in our communities and gave a brief history of opioid abuse in the United States.
The NWD program focuses on the recruitment, support, retention, and graduation of nursing students from underrepresented groups. It increases nursing education opportunities and assists students from disadvantaged backgrounds to become baccalaureate-prepared nurses. The nursing students in this program benefit from a multitude of support services and opportunities to serve the community.
Mount’s School of Nursing was recently awarded a $1.6 million, three-year Nursing Workforce Diversity grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Mount’s service-focused approach to education goes hand-in-hand with helping professions like nursing. Mount Nursing students enjoy state-of-the-art simulation labs and clinical relationships with dozens of area hospitals. The Mount’s passionate faculty are dedicated to the success of both their undergraduate and graduate students.