By Natalie Fortney
For On The Edge
Oct. 26, 2022
The Student Nurse’s Association (SNA) at Edgewood College provides nursing students opportunities to not only get to know everyone in the Nursing Program at Edgewood but allows them with to gain job opportunities that other people may not be aware of.
It is the only college in Wisconsin that automatically accepts all of its nursing students into its association.
Ashely Gorst, the vice president of the SNA, states that the group has helped her meet people outside of the college in addition to supporting connections to fellow nursing student classmates.
SNA members are allowed to not only go to their campus meetings, which are held every week, but they are also attend state and national events.
Every week officers and professors meet at the board meetings in a conference room in the nursing wing in Predolin to discuss the group and their goals.
Some upcoming events the SNA has planned includes an all-inclusive blood drive for all Edgewood students.
Along with other planned activities the group holds a tie blanket social where the new nursing students that have just been admitted into the cohort are invited to meet the group and members. After the blankets are made at the social, they are donated St. Mary’s Hospital for patients on the cancer treatment flood.
Meetings are held once a month for the whole group to come and talk about plans and activated for the future.
Gorst said that one of her favorite meetings involves a panel about nursing specialties that offer insight into the different pathways of nursing.
For more information, visit https://www.nsna.org or email Heidi Deininger, Professor Deininger, faculty advisor, hdeininger@edgewood.edu
About the author:
Natalie Fortney is a sophomore at Edgewood College and just transferred here from UW La Crosse. She was just accepted into the nursing program here at Edgewood for spring 2023. In her spare time, she is normally working or spending time with friends.
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