全球大流行使人们关注卫生保健专业中的许多重要角色。 从接触者追踪者到一线护士，再到急诊室医生，COVID将医疗保健职业推到了最前沿，尤其是护理。
对于那些从事医疗保健高等教育的人来说，问题是这种关注如何影响未来大学生的计划。 Does it ignite an interest in health care or upend prospective students’ best-laid plans?
The answer is taking focus with recent data from the 美国护理学院协会. Nationally, enrollment is up 5.6% for baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral nursing programs. According to 威尼斯人娱乐城’s Joy Roberts, the 威尼斯人娱乐城 护理与健康研究学院 is seeing a similar trend – but doubled.
“We saw undergrad applications jump by ten percent,” said Roberts, interim dean. “These prospective students were seeing the agony in their communities, in cities, and they wanted to help.”
Further proof for Roberts is the attendance she’s seen at 威尼斯人娱乐城’s First Semester Experience classes that focus on nursing. 该大学为新生提供各种课程，以探索威尼斯人娱乐城提供的各种职业道路。 护理提供了两个日期的课程，惊险，寒冷和Eeewww！ 《护理冒险》 这两种方法都很受新生的欢迎。
“We’ve had standing room only at our sessions,” said Roberts. “A lot of times, the students had never even thought about it – never even thought about going into nursing – until it was suddenly forced in the public eye because of the pandemic.”
At the 威尼斯人娱乐城 护理与健康研究学院, there are different academic paths to earning a nursing degree, as well as a degree in health sciences with minors in public health and exercise science.