A SK T H E E XPE RT S
NURSING IN A PANDEMIC
Adam Hayes Senior Nursing Major
Many have faced challenges and unique changes the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but perhaps none have seen more challenges than those in the medical field. Nurses and Millikin nursing students alike have had to adapt to the current climate and have been tested to their limits. Senior Millikin nursing student Adam Hayes noted many changes within the nursing program at Millikin. “We’ve really had to figure out a different way to study and different way to understand nursing without being in person,” Hayes said. He noted that there are unique advantages amidst the challenges of learning to be a nurse during a time where everything is online.
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“I’ve definitely switched my attitude to this idea of continuous learning. I think it’s made [this] class of nursing students more versatile.”
Being a nursing student in the time of a global pandemic has certainly not been easy, but Hayes thinks Millikin and the nursing faculty have continued to deliver Performance Learning opportunities while following state and local guidelines. “They’ve created different outpatient opportunities,” Hayes said. “One group of students are going to an outpatient clinic and working with patients who have diabetes to see how they manage their disease, while other people are giving out vaccines during their clinical experience.”
