Nursing Students Welcome University of Success Participants

University of Scranton nursing students recently hosted a presentation on the nursing profession for participants from the University of Success, a free, four-year, pre-college mentoring program for area students currently in eighth grade.

At the April 6 event, Sigma Theta Tau inductees in the undergraduate nursing program, and junior and senior nursing students led interactive modules at the University's Leahy College of Health Sciences. In addition to highlighting the importance of nurses and their role, University students led interactive modules on obtaining heart rates, blood pressures, vision testing, reflexes, and handwashing. Also, University of Success participants were offered an opportunity to interact with simulation mannequins.

An academic and enrichment program, the University of Success is funded entirely by corporate and foundation grants, so there is no charge to students and their families. The program's goal is to assist first-generation college-bound students to successfully complete high school and gain entrance into a college or university.

At Scranton, the Sigma Theta Tau International, Iota Omega Chapter is offered to undergraduate students in the upper 35 percent of their class and to graduate students who maintain a GPA of 3.5 or greater at The University of Scranton.