Nursing News and Features

IU Southeast to host COVID-19 vaccination clinic beginning next week
January 8, 2021
NEW ALBANY, Ind. – IU Southeast will be the host site for Floyd County Health Department (FCHD) to administer doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Floyd County residents starting January 11 at the IU Southeast campus. The COVID-19 vaccine will initially be limited to specific groups and offered by appointment. Those currently eligible to ...

SOS donates a semester worth of medical supplies to IU Southeast’s School of Nursing
December 1, 2020
Supplies Overseas (SOS), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving global health and the environment through recovery and redistribution of surplus medical supplies, has donated a semester’s worth of medical supplies (including gloves, masks, gowns, catheters, syringes, IV tubing dressings, IV fluids, saline and more) to Indiana University Southeast’s School of Nursing. The donation (over 1,400 ...

Master of Science in Nursing program earns accreditation from Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
June 10, 2020
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–The Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program at IU Southeast has earned full accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The accreditation for new programs such as the MSN is for five years. The CCNE accreditation process entailed a rigorous self-examination that involved an in-depth evaluation of ...

Suzie Curts ’18: frontline nursing on the Pine Ridge Reservation
May 18, 2020
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Suzie Curts ’18 is literally living her dream. The standout nursing graduate is an outpatient clinic nurse in the Kyle Health Center on the Pine Ridge Reservation in Kyle, South Dakota. That dream was hatched during her junior and senior years in the IU Southeast School of Nursing, when she ...

Natalie Fichter, nurse and student-athlete, on the frontline against COVID-19
April 20, 2020
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Early last season, after the IU Southeast Grenadiers women’s basketball team lost reserve post-player Gabby Read to injury, Natalie Fichter was moved to center. She had played the position in high school, at Sacred Heart Academy in Louisville, Kentucky, but at 5-feet 9-nine inches tall, had played small forward or ...

Nursing students visited Indiana Legislature for Health Policy and Advocacy Day
March 24, 2020
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–It’s common for political science students to visit legislators at the state capital. Nursing students? Not so much. Until now. Thanks to the initiative of Rosalind Scott Williams, clinical assistant professor of nursing, 25 students from CLASS traveled to Indianapolis earlier this year for a Health Policy and Advocacy Day. ...

Dr. Carla Hermann leads Nursing master’s program
October 18, 2019
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Dr. Carla Hermann has begun her tenure as director of the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program at IU Southeast, bringing with her a breadth of experience in the field and a compelling vision for the future. A graduate of the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky, she ...

IU Southeast collaborates with Veterans Court of Southern Indiana to support military community
September 12, 2019
NEW ALBANY, Ind. – The Indiana University Southeast School of Nursing is partnering with the Veterans Court of Southern Indiana to conduct a clinical experiential learning opportunity in collaboration with the correctional justice system and the military community. Founded in 2011 by Maria Granger, presiding judge over Floyd Superior Court 3, the Veterans Court of ...