Benedictine College School of Nursing

09/24/2026

📅 Academic Immersion Day ➡️ November 11, 2026 🗓

🩺 Future nurses, come experience Benedictine College! 🩺

Are you considering a future in nursing? Join the Benedictine College School of Nursing for Academic Immersion Day on November 11! This special visit day gives prospective students an opportunity to experience Benedictine College while taking a closer look at the Nursing program. Guests will enjoy campus-wide activities, including a welcome, Admission and Financial Aid information, and lunch, before breaking into major-specific groups for an immersive look at their area of interest. If Nursing is in your future, we’d love to have you spend the day with us! ❤️🖤

Select the Nursing track when you register 👉 Sign up here: https://apply.benedictine.edu/register/?id=3f3679c5-48d8-485b-97a9-56bab1067b5e

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09/18/2026

We are wrapping up Healthcare Simulation Week 2026 with Dr. Gomes attending the 18th Annual Kansas City Healthcare Simulation Conference! This year's theme, "Assess, Align, Advance: A Needs-Based Approach to Simulationists' Growth," brought together simulation educators and operations specialists from across the region, with keynotes from national leaders in the field.

As nurse educators, we are committed to continually expanding our knowledge, staying current with the evidence, and aligning our work with standards of best practice. That commitment means our students receive high-quality experiences as they prepare to deliver safe, competent, compassionate care. 🩺

Thank you, Dr. Gomes, for your continued dedication to our students and to your own professional growth!

09/18/2026

What a great way to end another wonderful week! 🌼

Congratulations to Gabriel Joerger, RN, one of our 2025 BCSON graduates, on receiving The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses at AdventHealth Shawnee Mission!

The DAISY Award is an international recognition program honoring nurses who provide exceptional, compassionate care. It was founded in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes, who died at age 33 from complications of an autoimmune disease. During his illness, his family was deeply moved by the skill and kindness of his nurses, and they created the award as a way to say thank you to nurses everywhere. (DAISY stands for Diseases Attacking the Immune System.)

What makes this honor so special is that nurses are nominated by the patients, families, and colleagues whose lives they have touched. Being selected means someone saw the difference Gabriel made at the bedside and wanted the world to know about it. To earn this recognition so early in his career is a remarkable achievement.

Gabriel, we are so proud of you. Once a Raven, always a Raven! 🐦‍⬛

09/17/2026

Another great day in the simulation lab at Benedictine College School of Nursing! 💫

09/15/2026

Virtual reality is one of the many simulation modalities we use at the Benedictine College School of Nursing. VR lets students step into patient care situations, practice clinical judgment, and make decisions in a safe space.

Here, Mrs. Madden is testing the equipment and running through the VR scenarios that students will complete in their first semester assessment course. She checks that the technology works smoothly, the scenarios flow as intended, and the experience supports what students are learning in class and lab.

Her philosophy is simple: she won't ask students to do anything she hasn't done herself. That commitment to preparation means students walk in supported, confident, and ready to learn.

09/14/2026

Happy Healthcare Simulation Week 💫

This week we will be sharing daily photos of Benedictine nursing students at work in the simulation lab: practicing skills, caring for patients, making decisions under pressure, and debriefing together afterward. Simulation is where classroom learning turns into clinical judgment, in a space where students can ask questions, take risks, and try again!

Be sure to follow along this week to see what happens behind the sim lab doors 👏.

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Go Ravens!! ❤️

08/31/2026

Three of our School of Nursing faculty spent Saturday evening at the Amberwell Health Foundation Gala at the Atchison Event Center. Dr. Jackie Harris, Dr. Violet Gomes, and Dr. Sarah Gillies represented BCSON at a night of giving benefiting the Building Hope campaign at Amberwell Atchison, which will bring cancer care, expanded rehabilitation, and additional specialty services to patients right here at home.

Thank you to the Amberwell Health Foundation for a beautiful evening and for investing in Atchison’s future 💫.

08/28/2026

Dr. Harris and our senior nursing students spent three days at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital last week for an immersive clinical experience. Students learned from Madonna’s on-site educators, observed leading-edge rehabilitation practices, and saw firsthand the work of restoring independence to patients. Thank you to the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals team for welcoming our students so generously! 🌟

08/27/2026

Welcome to the Profession! 🩺

On Wednesday, August 26, the Benedictine College Student Nurses’ Association hosted its Welcome to the Profession event, officially welcoming our incoming junior nursing class into the nursing profession. The afternoon marked a celebration of the beginning of our juniors’ nursing journey. Students came in their nursing scrubs for the official junior class photo with Rocky the Raven, and there was a special giveaway just for them. Our seniors joined in as well for the introduction of this year’s Big/Little mentorship pairs, kicking off relationships that will carry through the school year. Snacks, refreshments, and plenty of photos with Rocky rounded out the event ✨.

We always enjoy a visit from Rocky to start off the new academic year. Thank you to BCSNA for putting together such a wonderful welcome, and congratulations to our newest members of the nursing profession 👏.

Be on the lookout for more photos 📸 from the event coming soon! Go Ravens! ❤️

07/27/2026

🌟 Congratulations to Dr. Grove and Dr. Gillies on their new publication in the Nurse Educator journal, published by Wolters Kluwer! 🌟

Their article, “Closing the Communication Gap Through Text-Based Clinical Simulation: Right Provider, Right Message,” examines how text-based simulation can strengthen the way nursing students communicate with providers. The communication simulator at the center of this work (SimPhone Pro) was designed and developed by Dr. Grove. Built on the ISBARR framework, it gives students repeated, realistic practice in reaching the right provider with the right message, before they ever step to a patient’s bedside.

This past spring, Dr. Gillies implemented the simulator in her Senior Immersive Simulation Day. The pilot went well, and the qualitative feedback our seniors shared was positive. Students described the scenarios as realistic to what they encountered in their clinicals across the program, which is exactly what we want from simulation. We look forward to continuing this work as the simulator expands into more courses and more of our students get the chance to practice, practice, practice.

We’re proud of the scholarship coming out of our faculty and the impact it’s having on nursing education nationally.

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