BLOCK SCHEDULING
East Carolina University is adopting a block scheduling format for the 2020-21 academic year to aid in returning to on-campus instruction. Each semester will be divided into two eight-week blocks...
Nursing Archives
Standardized patients continue helping ECU health sciences students learn despite COVID
For 15 years, Ann Flake has helped students across the East Carolina University Division of Health Sciences practice their clinical skills—and the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t changed that. Flake serves as...
Faculty: Dr. Holly Wei
Dr. Holly Wei is a magician. And as an associate professor in East Carolina University’s College of Nursing, she is teaching her students to become magicians themselves. “When I was...
ADDRESSING NURSING SHORTAGE
An East Carolina University faculty member who helps Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students conceptualize and strategize their four-semester projects is now on the other side, working on her own...
ECU medical students resume clinical rotations for the first time since COVID-19
Medical students at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine recently returned to clinical rotations for the first time since rotations were halted because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Third-and-fourth year...
ECU Nursing resumes clinical placements and simulation labs for select programs
The College of Nursing has begun welcoming back students for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic paused clinical placements and other experiential learning exercises – allowing these students to...
COVID-19 SURVEY PROJECT
A team of East Carolina University public health experts are part of a statewide partnership on a project that will explore the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on North...
PREVENTING COVID-19 BURNOUT
As we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors, nurses and other health care providers are being faced with unprecedented challenges, including shortages of staff and equipment needed to provide care to...
‘WE ARE FIGHTING’
East Carolina University doctors, nurses and health care workers near and far are risking their lives to serve others during the coronavirus pandemic. From a nursing student working long shifts...
LEANING IN
As East Carolina University students switched from in-person to distance education-only classes last week, hundreds of faculty and staff worked from home. Face-to-face lectures or meetings were replaced by virtual...