Wendy Chicoine’s eureka moment came after her middle daughter, Paige, was diagnosed with an eye-movement disorder. “I went home and told my husband that I was going back to school for nursing,” she says. “To this day it’s a decision I’ve never questioned. I know I’m in the right place.” Since 2011, Chicoine, 46, has been a fixture at Rhode Island College’s School of Nursing. She earned her R.N. to B.S.N. in 2013; her M.S.N. in public health and community nursing in 2018 and received a Doctor of Nursing practice degree at the May commencement.
Mr. Avedisian’s gift was inspired by his love and respect for his sister, Zvart Avedisian Onanian. Due to financial barriers, Mrs. Onanian’s dream of earning a degree in nursing was never realized. Those barriers, however, did not prevent her from becoming a licensed practical nurse and, subsequently, working for Pawtucket Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Avedisian’s gift was inspired by his love and respect for his sister, Zvart Avedisian Onanian. Due to financial barriers, Mrs. Onanian’s dream of earning a degree in nursing was never realized. Those barriers, however, did not prevent her from becoming a licensed practical nurse and, subsequently, working for Pawtucket Memorial Hospital.
When it comes to nursing, “Reading [about] it is one thing and actually doing it is another,” says Dr. Joanne Costello, Professor at the Rhode Island College School of Nursing.
Students got to do much more than read when the School of Nursing ran its first disaster simulation trial in October.
RIC School of Nursing Accepts the Nurses Climate Challenge
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The Rhode Island College School of Nursing recently adopted the Nurses Climate Challenge, a national campaign and collaboration between Health Care Without Harm, an international nonprofit that promotes environmental health and justice, and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. The purpose of this challenge is to mobilize nurses to educate 50,000 health professionals on the impacts of climate change on human health by 2022. Nurses need to have a voice. They can see the impact in the human body of the decisions that are being made at the policy level about the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we consume, the impact of weather crises and the impact we make on the climate, explains Lynn Blanchette 82, associate dean and associate professor in the School of Nursing.