Student Health Services employees help keep the Washburn community healthy

To serve God, country, and fellow man. Washburn Student Health Services nurse practitioner Jane Brown has made this triad the motto of her life. During a recent interview in her office in Morgan Hall's Room 140, the longtime nurse talked about how she feels driven by caring for people. The stethoscope around her neck looked more like a necklace, because of how naturally she left it there. “...

Amanda Hartman loves being a nurse and teaching nursing. A calm, relaxed woman who radiates friendliness, Hartman talked recently about her work as an assistant professor in the Washburn School of Nursing and as a nurse for Washburn Student Health Services and East Topeka's Pine Ridge Family Health Center. “Empathy is really at the root of all that we do,” Hartman said. ...

"Devastating" is the term Pratikshya Pokhrel uses to describe her experiences at her first nursing job, which involved looking after patients in a COVID-19 ward during the pandemic in her home country of Nepal. "Seeing patients suffering so hard to breathe was heartbreaking," Pokhrel said. "They were fighting for their lives." Still, Pokhrel feels glad to have served those people. "Many of them survived," Pokhrel...

For first-year college students, life can be scary. You're in a new environment. You must make many important decisions. And, for some, you're on your own for the first time. But Tiffany McManis and her staff at Washburn Student Health Services say they are working to help make Washburn their "home away from home" for new students. McManis, Washburn's director of Student Health, is a certified ...

As she thought about moving nearly 8,000 miles to Topeka, Bipana Gurung — a native of Nepal — profoundly considered the challenges of getting used to a new country, a new curriculum and a foreign language. A nursing graduate from Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences in Kathmandu, Nepal, Gurung decided to take the next step and further her career abroad at Washburn University. Gurung conf...