UMass Vaccine Core
Date Posted: Tuesday, March 30, 2021Sharing the tremendous effort our 3 schools of students are doing in the realm of covid-19 related projects, vaccination and outreach to the community. This is truly an interprofessional effort.
March 9th marked the last day of the UMass Chan employee vaccination drive. UMass Chan students volunteered more than 640 hours on this project, and collectively these sites provided 40,000 vaccinations. Second, we want to spotlight this article, which highlights the efforts of our volunteers to have conversations with patients about the COVID-19 vaccines, in addition to vaccinating.
Syringes, Oranges, and Faculty Help Train More Than 100 Volunteers COVID Vaccinators
Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing involvement: Jill Terrien; Janet Hale; Students; Helen Tsiagras, Madeline Lane, Amanda Sylvia and Allison Carlson (all DNP year 1 and in my CSL group)
Read more: http://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/medical-campus-students-turn-out-in-droves-to-train-as-volunteer-vaccinators/
Christy Mangiacotti and Christina Connolly, Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing GEP students volunteered Monday January 18th at the Worcester Covid 19 vaccination clinic at the Worcester Senior Center. Providing the Covid vaccine to Worcester and Central MA 1st responders.
DNP student Jackie Mbugua is drawing up Pfizer vaccines to vaccinate the military in Cape Cod.
WE ARE UMASS STRONG
A video showing scenes of the past year reminds us how we are all UMass strong.
UMass Chan Medical School faculty reflect:
Michael Hirsh, MD, and Matilde Castiel, MD, provide comments in this Telegram & Gazette article.
Chancellor Michael F. Collins and Jill Terrien, PhD, ANP-BC, joined Michael Hirsh, MD, on WCCA-TV.