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Claudia Ruiz wears a two-piece burgundy suit and pink blouse as she is photographed in the School of Nursing's state-of-the-art simulation center on campus.

Healing the Gap: Alumna Aims to Empower Latinx Community

As a physician dedicated to helping the Latino community, Claudia Ruiz is the role model she wished she had growing up.

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Worth Sharing: Kimball Publishes Book No. 22

A listing of professional achievements by Chico State faculty, staff, and students.

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Worth Sharing: Student-Athletes Shine in the Classroom

A listing of professional achievements by Chico State faculty, staff, and students.

Kathleen Belzer at work as a midwife.

Five Questions with Certified Nurse Midwife and Alumna Kathleen Belzer

Nursing alumna and midwifery advocate Kathleen Belzer is driving diversity and equality in pregnancy and childbirth healthcare.

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Worth Sharing: Pike Pens Piece Exploring Benefits of Traditional Ecological Knowledge

A listing of professional achievements by Chico State faculty, staff, and students.

Jonathan Gurrola

Nursing Alum Puts LGBTQ+ Patient Care Policy into Practice

Jonathan Gurrola takes school project from the classroom to the community to advocate for equality in health care.

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Faculty Showcase Offers Chance to Be ‘Inspired’

Three faculty members who published amid the pandemic share their passions and stories of persistence.

A nursing student wearing protective gear holds a syringe that contains the vaccine against the coronavirus.

Nursing Students Serve on the Frontlines Against COVID-19

Doing their part to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, students from Chico State's School of Nursing are volunteering at local sites to provide much-needed testing and administer long-awaited vaccinations.

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Worth Sharing: School of Nursing Shines

A listing of professional achievements by Chico State faculty, staff, and students.

Chico State nursing student Elyse Fontana poses and sits on a desk

Nursing Students Tackle COVID-19 Contact Tracing

In need of public health clinical hours to fulfill their graduation requirement, students from the School of Nursing served their communities as COVID-19 contact tracers.

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Worth Sharing: Torkman Honored with CCAA Impact Award

A listing of professional achievements by Chico State faculty, staff, and students.

Amy Peet stands in front of Enloe Hospital wearing a face mask and her commencement attire.

Local Hospitals Keep Nursing Students on Track to Graduate

With a change in requirements and creative solutions to clinical hours, COVID-19 will not stand between School of Nursing students and their diplomas.

Chico State nurses wearing scrubs and masks attend to patients.

CSU, Chico’s School of Nursing RN Program Ranked Among State’s Best

In its fourth annual list of the “2020 Best RN Programs in California,” RegisteredNursing.org ranked CSU, Chico’s School of Nursing No. 12.

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Worth Sharing: Model UN Team Shines

A listing of professional achievements by Chico State faculty, staff, and students.

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Worth Sharing: Collaborative Partnerships and Positive Work Cultures

A listing of professional achievements by Chico State faculty, staff, and students.

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Worth Sharing: Chico State’s Athletics, School of Nursing Collect Accolades

A listing of professional achievements by Chico State faculty, staff, and students.

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Seven Faculty Earn Professional Achievement Honors

The Professional Achievement Honors recognize exemplary teacher-scholar achievement on our campus.

A nursing student crouches down to help a patient at an evacuation center during the Oroville Dam crisis in February 2017.

University’s School of Nursing Named One of Finest in California

Chico State's School of Nursing continues to strengthen its well-deserved reputation as one of the state’s elite programs, this time with a statewide recognition.

First-year pre-nursing student Emily Zarback smiles while standing with Kendall Hall in the background.

Pre-Nursing Student’s Focus and Drive Exemplify ‘Wildcat Spirit’

Freshman Emily Zarback honored for administering lifesaving CPR on a fellow Wildcat.

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Worth Sharing: Regional and Continuing Education Captures Regional Marketing Award

A listing of professional achievements by Chico State faculty, staff, and students.

The early morning winter sun shines upon the front of Kendall Hall.

Worth Sharing: Parker Presents at Joint Annual Entomological Meeting

A listing of professional achievements by Chico State faculty, staff, and students.

Jennifer Lefort stands among rows of beds set up at the Neighborhood Church evacuation center.

Students Care for Evacuees’ Physical and Mental Wellness

Dozens of cots lined East Avenue Church in tidy rows, a stark contrast to the chaos from which Camp Fire evacuees fled. Every face reflected the effects of exhaustion mixed with terror, the air of uncertainty as thick as the smoke outside.

The Wildcats Rise logo is seen over a sunrise behind Trinity Hall.

CSU, Chico Rises to Support Campus and Greater Community Directly Impacted by the Camp Fire

Chico State is working to understand and address the impact of current wildfires on the heart of its institution—students, faculty, and staff—as well as provide mutual aid to emergency responders.

Student Nurse Kaetlyn Alvarez works at the Barton Memorial Hospital in South Lake Tahoe over the winter session as part of her nursing preceptorship in the Rural California Nursing Preceptorship program. Nursing students receive 150 hours of hands-on clinical experience over three weeks. (Jessica Bartlett/University Photographer)

Little Town Lifelines

The only program of its kind in the nation, Chico State's Rural California Nursing Preceptorships program gives nursing students 150 hours of valuable hands-on learning in a clinical setting, while providing rural hospitals with extra staffing they so greatly need.

A student talks with a young child.

A Love for Humanity

In act of global service, nursing professor Faye Mitchell-Brown led a team 10 of students on a trip to provide health care in rural Mexico.