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For steady care and pandemic bravery, a hat tip to nurses
American Association of Colleges of Nursing includes Norwich images in video marking National Nurses Week
As President Dr. Mark Anarumo has said, nurses played a big role in helping Norwich mitigate the coronavirus pandemic during academic year 2020-21. Nursing staff and students, directed by Nursing Director Paulette Thabault and Center for Civic Engagement Director Nicole DiDomenico, kept the Plumley Armory COVID-19 testing center running, administering more than 28,000 tests in the spring semester alone.
The American Nurses Association and American Association of Colleges of Nursing are hailing nurses with National Nurses Day, which was Thursday, and National Nurses Week, which runs through May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. (Nightingale (1820-1910) transformed nursing by setting hospital sanitation standards, establishing a laundry to get patients clean linens and creating an “invalid’s kitchen” to
A virtual gala to hail gracious giving
Center for Civic Engagement holds Service, Learning and Leadership Recognition Celebration
Neither masks, nor distance, nor pandemic protocols would stop Norwich University’s volunteerism in 2020-21. Center for Civic Engagement Director Nicole DiDomenico said students’ perseverance showed gracious selflessness, and progress showed in April 15’s online meeting to celebrate it.
Spring 2020’s sudden campus shutdown to flatten the coronavirus infection curve scrubbed the Service, Learning and Leadership Recognition Celebration, a traditional in-person fete-and-feast. DiDomenico said she had neither time to plan nor enough digital experience to mount a virtual event.
But this year, DiDomenico and Assistant Director Abigail Joyal ’18, were ready. They honored 2021’s Civic Scholars students who received scholarship aid for 500 hours of service over four years and three students for honors earned in 2020.
Events for volunteers, accepted students, Corps of Cadets regimental commander change highlight campus calendar
Norwich University will spotlight its present its service tradition and its future incoming students in the semester and 2020-21 academic year’s next-to-last week,
National Volunteer Week began in 1974 and this week was heralded in a proclamation by the White House and President Joe Biden.
“By helping others, volunteers also help themselves. They learn new skills, expand their professional networks, connect with neighbors, and experience the satisfaction that comes from serving a larger cause.”
U.S. President Joe Biden
“We are living in a moment that calls for hope and light and love hope for our futures, light to see our way forward, and love for one another,” Biden’s proclamation read. “Volunteers provide all three. … This week, we recognize the enduring contributions of our Nation’s volunteers and encourage more Americans to join their ra