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Student-Created Handbook Offers Grief Support for TCU Nursing Students
CARE: A Bereavement Handbook is a new resource designed to help TCU nursing students and even faculty navigate the difficult emotions that can come with patient loss. It offers evidence-based strategies, tangible tools for emotional regulation and a peer-informed approach to grief care. Created by senior nursing students Gabriella Gentile, Grace Holmes, Hailey Lemon and Sarah Rangel, the project draws on both personal experience and a shared mission to make conversations about loss more open and compassionate.
Investing in the Future of Health Care
Dr. Stuart M. Flynn, founding dean of the TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine; Phil Hartman, dean and professor of biology in the College of Science & Engineering; Christopher Watts, Marilyn & Morgan Davies dean of the Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences; and Floyd Wormley Jr., associate provost for research and dean of graduate studies, discuss how student research could lead to significant impacts in all realms of health care.
An Interpersonal Approach
Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work, Tee Tyler, Ph.D., LCSW, has developed a teaching approach, called the Interpersonal Classroom Model (ICM), designed to help students talk across lines of difference in the classroom, such as race, religion and gender identity.
Learning from Dora and Diego
When Emily Lund heard her 3-year-old say the words kinetic energy — a topic never discussed at home — she realized entertainment technology could indeed be an educational tool.
Merredieth "Mike" Astor Brown: The Life of a Male TCU Nursing Graduate
Merredieth “Mike” Astor Brown, BSN, RN, Class of 1972, was born on Sept. 26, 1929, in Madison, West Virginia, a small coal-mining town. Mike’s dad was a coal miner during the Great Depression.
DEI Award Finalist: Lynita Yarbrough
Harris College’s Lynita Yarbrough, assistant professor of professional practice at the Davies School of Communications Sciences and Disorders at TCU, and first-ever DEI Advocate for Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences is a finalist for the award.
Horned Frogs in The News: The Perfect Prescription for Parkinson's Patients
In ‘Boxing is the perfect prescription for these Parkinson’s patients,’ Watts explained his research partnership with former professional boxer Paulie Ayala who conducts boxing classes called Punching Out Parkinson’s.
ICYMI: 2022 Harris College Student Research Symposium Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2022 HCNHS Student Research Symposium award winners!
Ashley Franklin, Ph. D., W.F. "Tex" and Pauline Curry Rankin Professor of Nursing
The W.F. “Tex” and Pauline Curry Rankin Professorship in Nursing was established at Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences by W.F. “Tex” and Pauline Curry Rankin in 1998.
Michelle Marlow Shares the Sweet Sound of Speech
M is for Michelle McKee Marlow. And if she ever writes a book about the letter M, it most likely will feature marriage, motherhood and mem’ries sweet.