Current & Future OSNA Service Projects
- CPR
- Ronald McDonald House Dinners
This has been immensely successful and the staff and residents of
the house are very grateful for our monthly dinners. Those of us that
have participated have had a great time and just seeing the faces of
the residents who don't have to worry about one meal while we're there
is very rewarding.
- Mentoring/Tutoring
Though there is a tutoring program available at the University, it
is only available for one class per student per semester and is only
for 100- and 200-level courses. In addition, many freshmen and
sophomores in the Nursing program feel very disconnected from the
other nursing students and the nursing program due to the fact that
they are not enrolled in NUR courses the first two years. We are
working on starting a mentoring/tutoring program that will accomplish
a couple of goals. On the mentoring side, we will attempt to pair
Junior nursing students with Freshman nursing students and Senior
nursing students with Sophomore nursing students. This will not only
allow the underclassmen to feel that they have a more direct
connection to the nursing program and ask for peer advice when they
need it, but it will also allow the upperclassmen to potentially help
an underclassman feel less bewildered than they themselves might have
felt during their first two years at school. In addition, it may also
help us keep more students in the nursing program, continuing on
through their junior and senior years to graduate and help alleviate
the very well-publicized nursing shortage across the country. On the
tutoring side, we will have a Service subcommittee dedicated to
running an informal tutoring program for OSNA members only that will
help pair upperclassmen with underclassmen to help in courses that the
tutoring program either doesn't offer help for (for example, 300-level
courses and above), or with additional courses that an OSNA member may
need help with (currently, students are only allowed help with one
course per semester). For more details on this, please contact
us.
- Nursing Panel
This has been held for the last couple of years and has been very
popular. If you have not attended one in the past, three to four
nurses are brought in to speak to us about their particular specialty.
This helps student nurses see what opportunities are out there that
they may never have considered. If you are interested in a particular
nursing specialty that you would like some more information on, please
let us know so that we may look into bringing that specialty in for
next year's panel.
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