{"id":119928,"date":"2021-05-06T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T13:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=119928"},"modified":"2021-06-09T11:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T15:21:29","slug":"pandemic-inspires-surge-of-interest-in-ucf-nursing-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pandemic-inspires-surge-of-interest-in-ucf-nursing-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Inspires Surge of Interest in Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Nursing Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Ruggiero started off the year 2020 with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and injured meniscus. The damage was severe enough that even though the COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing, doctors urged her to move forward with surgery in May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>As she mentally prepared herself, she expected to at least have the comfort of her family beside her in the hospital, but strict COVID-19 policies at the time meant she ended up being dropped off at the front door of the hospital and experiencing the surgery and immediate recovery alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was without my family the whole time and it was scary,\u201d Ruggiero says, \u201cbut one nurse never left my side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That comfort of a stranger ended up providing the guidance she was searching for. The sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/business-economics-bsba\/\">business<\/a> major already was considering a change in her degree track, but she hadn\u2019t yet determined to what.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>National Nurses Day is observed May 6 and kicks off National Nurses Week, which runs through May 12.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAfter going through that experience in the hospital, I knew this is definitely what I want to do,\u201d she says. \u201cI never felt alone with her and that\u2019s what I want to give back when I become a nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ruggiero wasted no time in making the change. She dedicated the next three semesters to completing eight prerequisite courses she needed to apply to the Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ College of Nursing, where she learned last month that she\u2019s been accepted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/nursing-bsn\/\">Bachelor of Science in Nursing<\/a> (BSN) program and will begin classes at the Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Cocoa campus in August.<\/p>\n<p>Ruggiero is not alone in having a change of heart. COVID-19 has shed light on the work of nurses and other frontline healthcare workers, and has inspired a surge of people to consider the profession for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ College of Nursing has seen that effect firsthand, with an unprecedented amount of applications this year. For its traditional BSN program, the college saw about 150 more applications than usual, a 26 percent increase over last year.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Simmons, assistant dean of students at the College of Nursing, says the increase is from a combination of transfer students and students like Ruggiero who already were at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ pursuing a different major prior to the pandemic. Almost a quarter of the Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ students who applied were in a major other than nursing when they arrived at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ as freshmen in 2019-20.<\/p>\n<p>Jesika Van Welie, a sophomore, is one of them. She entered Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/health-sciences-bs-2\/\">health sciences<\/a> major with aspirations for physical therapy, but after watching friends catch COVID and endure the symptoms, she knew nursing was the right health-related career for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA friend caught COVID and had it pretty bad with a high fever, cough, difficulty breathing and she couldn\u2019t sleep. It made me scared for her and I just wanted to be able to help,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Van Welie will begin nursing classes on the main campus in August.<\/p>\n<p>The Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ College of Nursing hosts classes on the Orlando, Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Cocoa and Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Daytona campuses. It graduates the most pre-license BSN students of any public university in Florida, adding significantly to the workforce every year.<\/p>\n<p>To cap off National Nurses Week, the college is hosting a virtual gala on May 15 to celebrate its 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary and honor alumni who have made significant contributions to the nursing profession. <a href=\"https:\/\/nursing.ucf.edu\/40th-anniversary-virtual-gala\/\">Learn more about the celebration<\/a> and history of the college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Nursing received a 26 percent increase of applications over the last year as more students feel a call to serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":119931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[4869,18250,22543,15761],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-119928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-health","tag-college-of-nursing","tag-coronavirus","tag-healthcare","tag-pegasus-briefs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pandemic Inspires Surge of Interest in Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Nursing Degree<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The College of Nursing received a 26 percent increase of applications over the last year as more students feel a call to serve.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pandemic-inspires-surge-of-interest-in-ucf-nursing-degree\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pandemic Inspires Surge of Interest in Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Nursing Degree\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The College of Nursing received a 26 percent increase of applications over the last year as more students feel a call to serve.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/pandemic-inspires-surge-of-interest-in-ucf-nursing-degree\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ News | Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-06T13:12:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-06-09T15:21:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/05\/nursing-degrees.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jenna Lee\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jenna Lee\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pandemic-inspires-surge-of-interest-in-ucf-nursing-degree\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pandemic-inspires-surge-of-interest-in-ucf-nursing-degree\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jenna Lee\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/bbcb2bbfa580f27936bd841c70479c63\"},\"headline\":\"Pandemic Inspires Surge of Interest in Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Nursing Degree\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-06T13:12:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-09T15:21:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pandemic-inspires-surge-of-interest-in-ucf-nursing-degree\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":578,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/pandemic-inspires-surge-of-interest-in-ucf-nursing-degree\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2021\\\/05\\\/nursing-degrees.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"College of Nursing\",\"Coronavirus\",\"Healthcare\",\"Pegasus Briefs\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Colleges &amp; 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