Nursing & Health Sciences Articles

Penn’s Inn was host on Friday to the State Emergency Health Services Council’s second annual Pennsylvania Statewide Pediatric Emergency Care Symposium on Friday. The symposium provided education for emergency medical technicians, paramedics and nurses. The symposium attracted 109 participants from across the state and featured instructors from both inside and outside Pennsylvania.

Members of the Health Sciences Living-Learning Community enjoy a night out with their faculty adviser at Faxon Lanes. Students ham it up during the fun, community-building break from campus and homework. The School of Health Sciences Living/Learning Community is well under way again this academic year.

Members of the Health Sciences Living-Learning Community enjoy a night out with their faculty adviser at Faxon Lanes. Students ham it up during the fun, community-building break from campus and homework. The School of Health Sciences Living/Learning Community is well under way again this academic year.

A member of the Pennsylvania College of Technology Foundation Board of Directors and his wife have created a scholarship at the college. Ray Mattie, a 1984 alumnus, and his wife, Michelle, established the Mattie Family Scholarship at Penn College.

A regional hub for the biennial International AIDS Conference, organized by AIDS Resource Alliance and co-sponsored by Pennsylvania College of Technology, will be held Oct. 25-26 at the Thompson Professional Development Center on the college’s main campus in Williamsport.

OTA Club President Felicia M. Shoup, of Trout Run (left), and Mariah A. Walter, of New Paris, take a slippery slide across the playing surface. Showing off their "Get Jiggy With Us" T-shirts, custom-made for the occasion, are Jennifer L. Dudek, of Williamsport (left), and Morgan E. Sheddy, of Jersey Shore. Club adviser Jeanne M.

A dental hygiene instructor at Pennsylvania College of Technology was the night's second-biggest winner on Monday's "Wheel of Fortune" broadcast, spritely spinning and solving her way to $11,900 in cash.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s longtime senior vice president has created a scholarship fund at the college honoring his late wife. William J. Martin established the Carolyn G. Martin Memorial Scholarship to pay tribute to his wife of nearly 42 years, who died July 10. Plans are for the scholarship fund to be endowed so that awards can be made in perpetuity.

Students' library display honors surgical technologists. Gathering in celebration The surgical technology program in Penn College’s School of Health Sciences celebrated National Surgical Technologist Week – Sept. 16-21 – by setting up an educational display on the ground floor of the Madigan Library and sharing a celebratory lunch. Surgical technologists are vital members of the surgical team.

Tara M. Powell Outside hitter Tara M. Powell, of Burgettstown, was named the Penn State University Athletic Conference women’s volleyball Player of the Week for the period ending Sept. 16.  In four games, Powell racked up 35 kills and 37 digs for the Wildcats.