Nursing News and Features
IU Southeast announces spring 2022 Chancellor’s and Dean’s lists
June 27, 2022
IU Southeast announces spring 2022 Chancellor’s and Dean’s lists NEW ALBANY, Ind. (June 27, 2022) – Indiana University Southeast is proud to announce members of the spring 2022 Dean’s List and Chancellor’s List. For the spring 2022 semester, 244 students made the Chancellor’s List, while 636 students were named to the Dean’s List. The Dean’s ...
Faculty Innovator: Adam Booth
November 3, 2021
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—What is the most critical component of nursing? Compassion? Teamwork? Responsibility? Adaptability? Ethics? Each of these can stake a claim. But there is a case to be made for another tool in the nurse’s kit, one that in some ways underlies all the others: communication. Adam Booth, assistant professor of ...
Floyd County COVID-19 vaccine clinic returns to campus
August 25, 2021
Starting Thursday, Aug. 26, the Floyd County Health Department will return to campus to distribute COVID-19 vaccinations. Here are the details: Location: Evergreen East Parking Lot between the Multipurpose Building and Physical Sciences Building. When: Mondays and Thursdays, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. An additional day will be added when the booster shots are available in ...
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 ...
