Oct 12, 2021
Honesto, Transparente y Empático
Mobile Vaccination Clinics Reach Austin-Area Hispanic Communities
School of Nursing
Apr 15, 2021
A Public Health Nurse Gets Her Chance to Step Up to the Front Line
Karen Johnson was at home in her makeshift bedroom office — one of her five cats crawling on her keyboard — when she got the email saying that UT had gotten its first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. The date was Dec. 14, 2020. The next day, UT started administering its first shots to front-line […]
Apr 14, 2020
Nursing Students Translate COVID-19 Handbook into Spanish
AUSTIN, Texas — Two bilingual University of Texas at Austin students are volunteering to translate and distribute COVID-19 health information to Spanish-speaking communities, bridging a critical information gap during the pandemic. Daniel Suárez-Baquero, a Colombian licensed nurse, wanted to assist the Texas health care community in fighting the coronavirus. However, without a license from the state, […]
Apr 06, 2020
Mental Health Programs Change Strategy Under COVID-19
AUSTIN, Texas — Due to the unique challenges that COVID-19 presents to underserved Austin communities, a collaboration between the School of Nursing and the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at The University of Texas at Austin is switching gears. The African American Church-Based Mental Health and Wellness (AMEN) program is going online. Supported by […]
