CHESTER, Pennsylvania (WPVI) The Citizen Corps of Delaware County says it needs help administering the vaccine and the nursing students at Widener University are answering the call.
Gabrielle Smyser is a senior nursing student at Widener University. She s about to get some serious real-world training before she graduates. We are definitely honored for sure. This is something that has truly shaken us all to our core, said Smyser.
Smyser says they ve already been trained, vaccinated and are eager to assist when the mass vaccinations start. To help people bring normalcy back to their lives, just day by day, is really something astronomical, said Smyser.
PA Hospital System Recruits College Students Home on Break in Fight Against COVID
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BETHLEHEM, Pa., Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ St. Luke s University Health Network (SLUHN) has tapped an unexpected, but welcome, labor pool of college students to help remotely monitor hospitalized COVID patients in eight of the Bethlehem-based network s dozen hospitals using revolutionary medical technology.
College students home on winter break help to fight COVID at Pennsylvania-based St. Luke s University Health Network.
Starting Dec. 19, a cadre of virtual monitoring technicians is now stationed 24/7 before digital screens in St. Luke s Virtual Response Center (VRC) in an office building in Allentown a few miles from the nearest hospital. For eight- to 12-hour shifts these twenty-somethings, many who started the job when they were home on Christmas break, watch the vital signs of seriously ill patients sent by the Masimo Patient Safet
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Mary Dickerson, EVP, Chief People Officer, Radian (Photo: Business Wire)
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