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Raitavius Whitner is a junior at Queens, juggling his education classes with virtual teaching observation (clinical) hours and working at Freetown Community Center in Greenville, South Carolina. Tere, he helps students log online for remote classes and schoolwork. Buoyed by technology education classes he’d already taken, he said he feels confident in his ability to help the children navigate virtual learning. He not only has to pay careful attention to the technology skills of the kids, but he also needs to make sure that they’re taking time to be, well, kids. Tat means breaks every two hours, and scheduled time for activities so that there’s a little bit of normal during these extraordinary times. “I sort of look at the positive in everything,” Whitner


said. “Just being able to work with the kids—I’m learning a lot of new things about becoming a teacher, as well.”


NURSING


When the pandemic sent Queens students home for virtual learning during spring semester in 2020, Tama Morris, dean of the Blair College of Health and the Presbyterian School of Nursing, was balancing how to meet students’ educational requirements while mitigating risk for students and faculty. “I was confident that we could rise to the occasion and meet the challenges,” said Morris. For nursing alumna Cadiang, confidence was key when her assignment shifted to the COVID-19 unit at Atrium Health in March. Five months later, Cadiang wanted a new challenge and a chance to work even more closely with COVID-19 patients, so she took a job as a traveling nurse based in Southern California. Tere, she works short stints at various hospitals, often filling in for staffs that might have been decimated by quarantine for exposure to the virus or who had the virus, itself. “It’s a very pivotal disease,” Cadiang said, “and I want to


be a part of trying to find the treatment and educate people on it because I feel like there’s a lot of people out there who are very misinformed or not educated at all, or miseducated.”


Cadiang has supported patients who were stressed about their diagnosis or who desperately wanted to see family as their condition worsened and couldn’t because of isolation requirements. “It breaks my heart to see that they have to go through


it alone,” she said, adding that she’s relied on therapeutic communication training from Queens. “You just have to learn how to make them feel hopeful, and I guess to make them not give up.” At Huntersville Oaks, a skilled nursing facility north of


Charlotte, Joselyn White ’08, MSN ’13 treated some of the sickest coronavirus patients when the facility was selected to be Atrium’s COVID unit.


White began as a clinical nurse leader and was charged with


developing Huntersville Oaks’ treatment plan. In June, she was named director of nursing, which meant knowing details of what equipment and staffing was needed, working with upper- level administration to understand the processes that would be implemented and relaying how to provide the best care. “We really didn’t know what to expect because everything was changing constantly,” White said. Tere would be times when the 42-bed unit was filled


with COVID-19 patients. It might slow down a bit, but the steady stream of information and pressure were among


“IT’S A VERY PIVOTAL DISEASE, AND I WANT


TO BE A PART OF TRYING TO FIND THE TREATMENT AND EDUCATE PEOPLE.”


the most difficult challenges. White said it was never too overwhelming for her because she was well prepared by her education and training. “When you come into nursing, you just need to be


prepared for whatever might take place,” White said. “It’s not just come to work, get paid and go home. It’s something that you’re taking with you when you leave the job.” Tat same type of calling also leads people to teaching.


It’s a commitment to serve and help others regardless of the circumstances, and a global pandemic certainly brings extraordinary circumstances. “We never know what’s going to happen, and health


care is constantly changing,” said White. “It’s moving, and we need to just be prepared for that.” 


Celina Cadiang ’18 21


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