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| Students in the Nursing
Program at the Cambridge Campus of Anoka-Ramsey
Community College (ARCC) have been learning
first hand about community service this
spring. In recent weeks, nursing students
have volunteered at a local charity and
spoken out on health issues in state government. |
Attending Nurses Day on the Hill in
St. Paul are, bottom row left to right:
ARCC student Anne Grahn, Minnesota Attorney
General Mike Hatch, and ARCC Nursing Faculty
member Kelli Smith; second row left to
right: ARCC students Steve Traczyk, Elizabeth
Welf, and Janel Ostendorf; third row left
to right: ARCC students Marcie Malik and
Heather Murawski; fourth row left to right:
ARCC students Andrea Erickson, Virginia
Kopydlowski, Denece Strandlund, and Becky
Cronin. |
Members of the Cambridge
Student Nurses Association (CSNA) joined
together to help the Family Pathways community
assistance agency prepare for the opening
of a thrift store in the former Econo Foods
building in Cambridge, Minn. The students
took an afternoon to help sort through
donations, hanging and tagging clothes
and other goods that will be offered at
the new thrift store. Family Pathways serves
individuals in need through a variety of
programs in Chisago, Isanti, Pine, Kanabec,
and Mille Lacs counties.
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ARCC nursing students Marcie
Malik, left, and Susan Lorenz, right, help
sort donations for the opening of the new
Family Pathways thrift store in Cambridge,
Minn.
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Traveling
to the State Capitol, students next got
a chance to learn about health
care advocacy. Several second-year
nursing students attended the Nurses
Day on the Hill rally in late March.
The students met with their state representatives
to discuss three priorities for the
2006 Legislative Session: prohibiting
mandatory overtime for state RNs, passing
a constitutional amendment on the right
to health care, and building legislation
to improve nursing care and regulation
in assisted living situations. The
students even had a chance to meet
the day’s keynote speaker, Attorney
General Mike Hatch.
“We learned a great deal on
how government works at the local and
state level,” said ARCC nursing
student Anne Grahn. |
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