{"id":67519,"date":"2015-08-07T11:48:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T15:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=67519"},"modified":"2021-01-06T11:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T16:16:15","slug":"graduating-nursing-students-helped-veterans-including-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/graduating-nursing-students-helped-veterans-including-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduating Nursing Students Helped Veterans, Including the Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UCF nursing student Darris James loves helping military veterans.<\/p>\n<p>James is a veteran himself \u2013 he spent 13 years in the U.S. Navy, including time as a Navy corpsman \u2013 and that shared experience has given him common ground with other veterans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really enjoy being around the vets,\u201d said James, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/graduating-nursing-students-helped-veterans-including-the-homeless\/\">will graduate with more than 3,600 others<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; including other military vets from the College of Nursing &#8212;&nbsp;on Saturday at CFE Arena. \u201cI get a chance to listen to some of their stories and build a rapport with them. I am a vet myself, and I like being around them to remind them that there are people who still care about them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s in good company among his fellow College of Nursing students on the University of Central Florida\u2019s Cocoa campus. The nursing program there has developed a special relationship with the nearby VA clinic \u2013 and the many veterans it serves.<\/p>\n<p>The busy Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic in Viera provides services to Brevard, Volusia and Indian River counties, an area that\u2019s home to about 100,000 vets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been marvelous,\u201d said VA clinic nurse Audrey Hibbard, who recruited UCF nursing students to help provide services for homeless veterans. \u201cTheir efforts have allowed me to provide much-needed health education to these vets. I\u2019m thrilled \u2013 this is a very skilled, professional group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a good relationship for UCF, said Krisann Draves, a lecturer at the College of Nursing\u2019s Cocoa campus who helps coordinate activities involving veterans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Viera VA clinic so close, it is such a great partnership for us to be able to continue to reach out to our veterans,\u201d Draves said. \u201cAnybody can be in a bad situation at any time, so I think to be able to honor them for their service can be very uplifting for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) do clinical rotations at the VA clinic, gaining critical experience.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn\u2019t end there. The students have put on flu shot clinics at the VA facility, launched drives to gather supplies for veterans, and spearheaded educational presentations for recently homeless vets.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float-left size-large img-fluid wp-image-67524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2015\/08\/Nursing-Students-Present-950x632.jpg\" alt=\"Nursing Students Present\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float-left size-large img-fluid wp-image-67524 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"Nursing Students Present\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2015\/08\/Nursing-Students-Present-950x632.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Sarah Johnson and other nursing students share health information with formerly homeless veterans at a transitional housing complex.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br>\nMany students participate in \u201cStand Downs,\u201d one-day events organized by the VA to provide help to homeless veterans. Vets can receive everything from hot meals to haircuts and dental care. Organizers also connect them with available resources and make sure they\u2019re receiving the services to which they\u2019re entitled. Knight nursing students help with medical intake, and escort veterans throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy main goal is to work with veterans,\u201d said Rhonda Pullis, a senior in the College of Nursing. \u201cIt\u2019s a very unique sacrifice they\u2019ve made. They\u2019re a very deserving population, and I just don\u2019t think that most civilians truly know what the active duty member goes through, and what the military families go through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pullis understands, though. She served eight years in the U.S. Air Force, and her husband spent 20 years as an Air Force pilot. She enrolled in UCF\u2019s BSN program after her son finished college.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent afternoon, five nursing students from the Cocoa campus crowded into an apartment living room in Victory Village, a transitional housing complex in Titusville for homeless disabled veterans. They delivered a health and hygiene presentation to 10 military veterans who until recently had been on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>The vets seemed reticent at first, but when they heard that some of the students were veterans themselves, they soon became engaged. Some stuck around to chat with the students after the hour-long discussion, which was part of a series of presentations by students in partnership with the VA clinic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really passionate about helping veterans, especially homeless veterans,\u201d said Sarah Johnson, president of the UCF Cocoa Student Nurses Association, which has organized sock drives and other homeless service activities. \u201cThey\u2019ve given so much to their country, and they\u2019re the people that everyone says they care about and want to help, but they\u2019re the ones who are most often forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, James and Pullis are expected to graduate with their BSN on Saturday, along with other seniors helping veterans, including Bill Hickman, Lindsay Hayes and another military vet, Brian Hosken. After earning their degrees, they\u2019ll be eligible to take the national licensure exam for registered nurses.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-eight percent of UCF\u2019s BSN graduates pass the RN licensure exam on their first attempt, and that\u2019s one reason <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/new-report-reveals-nursing-once-again-top-program-in-florida-u-s\/\">a recent report<\/a> ranked the College of Nursing among the top programs in Florida and the nation. The report revealed that UCF is second out of 150 programs in the state, and in the top 4 percent of the 778 programs nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><em>In addition,<\/em><em> U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em>&nbsp;recently named the college among the top 25 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/academics\/us-news-rankings\/\">Best Online Graduate Nursing Programs for Veterans<\/a>\u201d for 2015. 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