When the Long Island community’s health is at risk, FSC student nurses answer the call. Especially now, during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
First, it was collecting PPE for front-line healthcare workers. Now, 56 senior nursing students have volunteered as Contact Tracers, to personally join the fight against COVID-19.<\/p>\n
The volunteers helped Long Island meet its required quota of Contact Tracers necessary for its Phase 1 reopening. They are unpaid, and instead will receive clinical credit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am so pleased to have received approval from the State Education Department to allow students to participate in public health, case-finding\/tracer efforts related to COVID-19,\u00a0in partial fulfillment of required direct clinical experiences,\u201d says Dr. Lori Goodstone, chair of the College\u2019s Nursing program. \u201cThis is truly a unique once-in-a-lifetime situation, and I am so excited that our students will play a role in the health, safety, and recovery of Long Island.\u201d<\/p>\n
Working under the auspices of the NYS Contact Tracing Program, <\/strong>nursing students work with those who have tested positive for COVID-19, to identify others they may have had contact with, and then notify them that may have been exposed to the virus. They prepared by taking\u00a0a six-hour training course through Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.<\/p>\n President Nader says: \u201cOnce again, our students and faculty have stepped forward to help Long Island prevent and overcome the COVID-19 epidemic. \u00a0We have worked closely with the Regional Control Room, the governor\u2019s office, and Suffolk County to see to it that Long Island has a ready group of highly qualified nursing candidates to serve as Contact Tracers. \u00a0Farmingdale nursing students have been exemplary. They collected PPE for hospitals and stayed on as front-line workers from the earliest days of the crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n Farmingdale\u2019s nursing students are among the highest-performing in the country. In a first-quarter survey of test results for the important NCLEX-RN licensing exam, they scored a 100% pass rate. They have done this more than once.<\/p>\n The NCLEX exam is a standardized exam that each state board of nursing uses to determine whether a candidate that has successfully completed an accredited nursing degree is prepared for entry-level nursing practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the Long Island community’s health is at risk, FSC student nurses answer the call. Especially now, during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, it was collecting PPE for front-line healthcare workers. Now, 56 senior nursing students have volunteered as Contact Tracers, to personally join the fight against COVID-19. The volunteers helped Long Island meet its required […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":30392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383"}],"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=30383"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30394,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383\/revisions\/30394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}