{"id":2506,"date":"2015-12-14T10:27:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T15:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2016-01-04T08:29:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T13:29:52","slug":"mentors-extend-a-helping-hand-to-nursing-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2015\/12\/14\/mentors-extend-a-helping-hand-to-nursing-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentors Extend a Helping Hand to Nursing Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Kim O&#8217;Hara has implemented a Nursing mentorship program in which upper- division students assist freshmen nursing students as they navigate the demands of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Student mentors have attended Open House to help answer questions, as well as Admissions&#8217; nursing information sessions to provide the inside scoop on the program and strategies on how to succeed. Even though FSC&#8217;s nursing program is very popular, it&#8217;s important to make sure that top candidates enroll.<\/p>\n<p>As we all know, increasing completion rates for SUNY students is a priority for Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher.<\/p>\n<p>Nursing Admissions Counselor Ryan Neary said, &#8220;Having a nursing mentor in the admissions session has been very helpful. \u00a0While I can explain how to get into the program, the student mentor knows the inner workings of the program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Professor O&#8217;Hara and FSC&#8217;s Student Nurse Mentors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jessica Daddino<\/li>\n<li>Heather Marino<\/li>\n<li>Gina Eletto<\/li>\n<li>Carly Vittoria<\/li>\n<li>Ashley Bayne<\/li>\n<li>Kristen Bonura<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Fifer-Livingstone<\/li>\n<li>Marisa Armstrong<\/li>\n<li>Megan Grosshandler<\/li>\n<li>Hailey Gulino<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Kim O&#8217;Hara has implemented a Nursing mentorship program in which upper- division students assist freshmen nursing students as they navigate the demands of the program. Student mentors have attended Open House to help answer questions, as well as Admissions&#8217; nursing information sessions to provide the inside scoop on the program and strategies on how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}