Respiratory care students to receive an emergency license to work on frontlines of COVID-19 pandemic
Bridget Reilly, Photography Editor
April 21, 2020
Governor of Texas Greg Abbott announced Sunday, April 5 that physician assistants, medical physicists, perfusionists and respiratory care candidates for licensure "who have completed all other requirements may enter the workforce under an emergency license working under supervision prior to taking the...
Nursing students’ course requirements change amid COVID-19 pandemic
Kristin Silva, Chief Editor
March 30, 2020
With the increased caution amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order to waive to allow students in their final year of nursing school to meet their clinical objectives by exceeding the 50% limit on simulated experiences. Following this order, Midwestern State University P...
Day in the life of Julia Orozco
Randi Heaton, Reporter
April 23, 2019
From 6:45 a.m. weights to 6 p.m. practice with a day full of classes in between, Julia Orozco, nursing sophomore, has minimal free time. Being a part of the women's soccer team and preparing to enter the nursing program makes for a busy day. Orozco came all the way from McKinney, Texas where her family...
Update: Health sciences building construction
March 15, 2019
The new health sciences building is scheduled to be up and running Fall 2019. As of now the third floor will be home to the faculty offices and the second will be dedicated to nursing and respiratory care. The first floor will have classrooms and will possibly hold the dental hygiene department. ...
Bridwell Hall to be renovated
Clarissa Alvarado, Reporter
March 13, 2019
Right now it sits in the shadow of the multi-million-dollar Dillard College of Business Administration building, built in 2006, the new $42 million health science building to be opened in 2020, and the shiny McCoy Engineer Building with its copper trim. It's bland. But the Bridwell Hall will soon...
Health Science interim dean is up for permanent position
Rachel Johnson
January 30, 2018
Jeffrey Killion, interim dean of Gunn College of Health Science & Human Services, stood before his peers in Dillard Room 101, addressing his vision for the department and the goals he has to better the College of HSHS. The word Killion used to sum up his visions and plans as future Dean of the co...
New Health Science building over budget
Justin Marquart, Design Editor
December 20, 2017
The university is using money obtained from a tuition revenue bond, consisting of $58.4 million, to update the campus, a new health science building. Administrators set a budget for this project at $38 million with $2 million in reserves, for as need basis, making $40 million of that bond reserved ...
New health sciences building prepares to break ground
Leah Bryce
May 4, 2017
As the mass communication building comes to its final stages of construction, MSU prepares to break ground on a new health sciences building. Two years ago, the university was granted the tuition-revenue bond from the state to pay for these new buildings. “Buildings are a recruiting tool,...
Disciplines work together for ER simulation
Brendan Wynne
November 16, 2016
Though hands-on activities are often key components for health science students, very rarely do professors get the opportunity to show students what it’s really like to work in a hectic, hospital environment. Until now, that is.On Friday, Nov. 18, students from the departments of respiratory care, r...
Nursing program: university’s largest
Sabrina Rodriguez
December 7, 2015
Economic development | Enrollment | Budget | Nursing | Housing | International enrollment | Crime | Greek life When walking around the campus, students can be seen eating, heading to class or enjoying the day. Those students wearing maroon scrubs with an MSU patch on the sleeve and...
Nurse-Family Partnership: preventing child abuse, neglect through education
Serah Welborn
April 30, 2015
As April, the National Child Abuse Prevention month, reaches its conclusion, the Nurse-Family Partnership will continue its mission of improved child care outside the spotlight. Clients of the NFP are taught the basic child-care and parenting skills. Nationally, the program exists in 43 stat...
J.S. Bridwell Simulation Center to get an update
Courtney Gilder
January 29, 2015
The Wilson School of Nursing received a $115,317 grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board under the Nursing Innovation Grant Program “Building Lab and Simulation Capacity” to the develop the simulation center to maximize on the capacity and use of the simulation center for the nursing...