A syringe filled with COVID-19 vaccine at North Suburban Medical Center in Thornton, Dec. 17, 2020.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, medical residents at the CU School of Medicine have been working with COVID-19 patients. As the hospitals they work at started to get Pfizer vaccines for frontline health care workers this month, residents were excited and relieved. But, in the first week of vaccine distribution they said they were treated as less of a priority than other medical professionals working with COVID-19 patients.
“It really felt like a willful disregard for our health and wellbeing,” said a senior resident who works at both Denver Health and UCHealth. “It felt like we were forgotten that no one had even considered to include 1,200 members of the health-care workforce in this plan to vaccinate people in the first round of vaccinations.”
WESTMINSTER Front Range Community College, with campuses in Westminster, Brighton, Longmont and Fort Collins, is awarding its first bachelor’s degrees in the school’s 52-year history. These are also the first four-year degrees in nursing from any school in the Colorado Community College System. FRCC began offering its new BSN degree program following a legislative decision in 2018 to permit the community college normally a two-year degree institution to offer bachelor degrees in nursing because of a statewide shortage of degreed nurses.
“FRCC’s new program is helping to meet a growing need for skilled health-care providers in Colorado by building on our 50-year history of outstanding nursing education,” President Andy Dorsey said in a written statement. “It also provides students an affordable route to good jobs in their home state.”
Gov. Jared Polis received the state s first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday morning. Author: Bobbi Sheldon, Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, Dacia Johnson (9NEWS) Published: 6:04 AM MST December 14, 2020 Updated: 10:15 PM MST December 14, 2020
DENVER The state s first COVID-19 vaccines were administered to frontline health-care workers Monday afternoon after Colorado received its first shipment of Pfizer s vaccine Monday morning.
“This is just the start of the distribution,” Gov. Jared Polis said. “It’ll help protect some of our most vulnerable, the tireless COVID workers who work in COVID wards every day, and then more will become available for the general population to help end the pandemic.
Outstanding Grads: Dominique Braun-Lasnier, College of Agricultural Sciences 14 Dec, 2020
Dominique Braun-Lasnier says her college career has been a decade-long journey.
When she graduated from Smoky Hill High School in 2011, Braun-Lasnier was offered a half-scholarship to Regis University, but she gave it up after a year and a half.
“I didn’t know what I wanted to do, and even with the scholarship, I didn’t want to pay that much to find out,” the first-generation college student says. Instead, she decided to spend time on her uncle’s sheep farm in southern Iowa.
“That’s where I fell in love with the rural life,” she says. “I grew up in the big city of Aurora, but I really liked working with animals.”