Bridgett Robbins is an Assistant teaching professor at the Sinclair School of Nursing, but before that she worked as a nurse in Mid-Missouri for more than 30 years.She spoke about how travel nursing can impact hospitals and about why she believes some students want to sign traveling contracts.
Jaden Harper is a junior at the University of Missouri studying cross-platform editing and producing. She is a reporter/producer for KBIA's Missouri Health Talks and the supervisor producer for the Vox Voice podcast.
Bridgett Robbins is an Assistant teaching professor at the Sinclair School of Nursing, but before that she worked as a nurse in Mid-Missouri for more than 30 years.She spoke about how the past several years of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted – and continues to impact – her and those she works alongside.As a note - This piece discusses the pandemic, grief and death, and may be distressing to some listeners.
MU Nursing Students To Help With Patient Care Over Winter Break
One by one, the 70 nursing students on the late-afternoon video call turned on their cameras. Some were still in nursing uniforms from clinical, some were just taking a break from studying. Every hand was raised.
“I was in tears,” said Robin Harris, associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing.
She had summoned students to that meeting in early December to ask if they would give up their winter break to help out. With COVID-19 patients quickly filling MU Health Care hospital beds, the nursing staff is stretched thin, said Harris, who is part of a committee working to enhance the MU academic and MU Health Care partnership and apprenticeship opportunities.