Dakota Davis wails in pain as her mother sits anxiously beside her emergency room bed. Dakota is wearing sunglasses. "The lights are just hurting my eyes so much," groans Dakota, a 17-year-old college...
When Rachel Fariscal, BSN’ 20, arrived to check on a man in his early 90s she was nervous. She’d completed clinical hours at hospitals before but as part of her community health rotation she was about...
Samuel Merritt University Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) alumni are among the best-prepared graduates to repay student loans and land jobs with higher salaries, according to rankings by Credible...
Henry Roth has been named vice president for strategy, innovation, and operations at the Samuel Merritt University. He started July 5. In this role, Roth will oversee Financial Services, People and...
Olena Khudiakova ABSN ’20 has logged dozens of hours reading textbooks and treating mannequin “patients” in SMU simulation labs. But what she has come to value most in the last few months of the...
After an extensive nationwide search, Samuel Merritt University has selected Lorna Kendrick, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS, as its new School of Nursing dean. Kendrick, who started May 26, succeeds Audrey Berman...
Alex Malliaris, ELMSN-FNP ’18 couldn’t sit idle after the shelter-in-place order shuttered the Oakland clinic where she worked as a nurse practitioner and clinical services manager. So, when she got a...
Hannah Miller, ABSN ’18, is an orthopedic nurse at San Jose’s Good Samaritan Hospital—someone who values consistency and order. Then COVID-19 hit the Bay Area, bringing with it chaos and changing...
It’s 8 p.m. and Howard is despondent. Earlier in the day, he was hit by a scooter on the streets of Oakland. He’s being treated at a local hospital for a fractured ankle and burning pain in his hand...
Samuel Merritt University President Ching-Hua Wang has been named one of the San Francisco Business Times’ Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business. The annual award celebrates women business...
