Chippewa Valley Technical College nursing students learn as they teach

6 Jun 2024


Eau Claire, News

Nursing is more than recording blood pressure, starting an IV and giving medications.

Jen Scheller, who is set to enter her last semester of the nursing program at Chippewa Valley Technical College, said nursing is about patients. Learning how to interact with the community and, in the end, being able to educate people on health care situations that could help those people throughout their lives is also a part of nursing.

With that in mind, Scheller, Carmyn Hanson, Tony Bell, Mackensy Kolpien and Aubrey Wardall, who all expect to graduate in December with associate degrees in nursing from CVTC, took their required 16 hours of community service and poured them into a collaboration with Hope Gospel Mission recently.

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