May 12 is National Nurses Day, and Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College is celebrating its nursing students and all the working professionals in the field.
The theme for this year is âNurses: A Voice to Lead.â This year the goal is to find voices and ideas for innovations and improvements to elevate the nursing practice and define what it means to provide compassionate, connected care.
Southernâs Student Nurses Association (SNA) promotes awareness and involvement in nursing education. The SNA supports the education of the student nurse as a professional and acts as a liaison between nursing faculty and nursing students. The SNA participates in educational and community service. Mentors for Southernâs SNA are Dr. Debra Mullins, Ed.D., MSN, APRN, FNP-BC and GNP-BC, first-year instructor, and Dr. Anitra Ellis, DNP, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, second-year instructor.
LOGAN â Logan Countyâs active cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus continue to decline, with 126 in the county as of Tuesday afternoon.
Thatâs a massive drop of 50 cases from just the day before on Monday, when active cases in the county were at 176. The county added only five new cases Tuesday.
Logan Countyâs cumulative totals since its first recorded case of COVID-19 on March 25, 2020, now stands at 2,712 cases, with 2,511 recoveries and 75 deaths. The most recent death is a 57-year-old man, confirmed Tuesday.
Twenty-two of the countyâs cases are currently hospitalized.
âWeâre averaging less than, probably, eight a day â somewhere right around that number, maybe a little bit less than that,â said Steve Browning, administrator of the Logan County Health Department. âI expect to continue that direction, I really do. I could be wrong, but Iâm thinking the further we get away from the holidays and the more people that become vacci