Spring 2008

Welcome Carol Clark,

New Adjunct Professor of Nursing.

Carol Clark recently joined Crown as Adjunct Professor of Nursing, teaching Nursing Research online to our Senior Nursing students.

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Can You Imagine?!

Nursing in Days Gone By

One of the standards that Dorothea Dix, Civil War Nursing Corps leader, established for her nurses was that they be plain looking and middle-aged.  Recruits consequently named her “Dragon Dix”.

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Top 10 Ways to Survive Nursing School

Tried and Proven Tips from Crown Senior Nursing Students

If you don't understand it, ask until you understand it (homework, clinical, project...)Take it in strides, some are harder than others - Laugh at yourself (and others) every day

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My Hopes for the Congo

By Krista Westrich, Senior Nursing Student

My hopes for the Congo… what a list, where to start? The needs of the people in the Congo are innumerable and more complex than I may ever be able to comprehend. If I were to list the things that I would like to see happen in the Democratic Republic of Congo I would start with the things that would have the biggest impact on the people that I got to know while over there.

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The Story of Digna

By Karla Larson, RN, MSN
Missionary Nurse and Adjunct Professor of Transcultural Nursing at Crown College

Digna is 34 years old.  Four years ago she was working in a nice job as an Executive Assistant to a wealthy businessman in the city.  Her brother was this man’s chauffeur.  After work one day it was raining and her brother asked if he could give her a ride home, less than two blocks away.  She said yes and that decision changed her life forever.

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Congratulations!!!

Nursing's Dean's List Students

Despite the rigors of Nursing school, these students have made an outstanding achievement.

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