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  • Student Care Network proactively supports students Posted by: Kari Plog / January 25, 2018 January 25, 2018 By Genny Boots '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 25, 2018)— As a resident assistant in Harstad Hall at Pacific Lutheran University, Tegan Mitchell ’18 hosts events, conducts regular check-ins and is a general resource for the residents who live in her wing. “But on a daily basis I really only see my residents coming to and from the bathroom,” Mitchell said. So it can be

  • The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at Pacific Lutheran University is responsible for the oversight and evaluation of the animal care and use program and its components.

    Welcome!The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at Pacific Lutheran University is responsible for the oversight and evaluation of the animal care and use program and its components. The principal responsibilities of the committee are to: Ensure the humane and ethical treatment of laboratory animals Monitor the environment provided for laboratory animals by periodic inspection of the areas in which they are housed Facilitate the establishment of mechanisms to protect personnel

    Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
    Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • Keven Drews’ doctor told him he was out of options in his longtime fight for his life. So, he launched a crowdfunding campaign to earn $500,000 for a clinical trial at Fred Hutchinson Cancer

    options in his longtime fight for his life. Drews has faced a 14-year battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer formed in the body’s plasma cells. His last hope is a clinical trial at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, with the half-a-million price tag. “I got 14 years,” he said. “I’m hoping to get more.” Drews recently graduated from Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing, after spending years working as a

  • Recent PLU Graduates on their Careers, Convictions & Passion for Health Care Posted by: Zach Powers / December 18, 2014 Image: Candis LeBaron, Tacoma General Hospital, Dec. 18, 2014. [Photo: Zach Powers/PLU] December 18, 2014 By Zach Powers PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Dec. 21, 2014)—All over the world, Pacific Lutheran University alumni are serving in a wide variety of roles in hospitals, clinics, research centers and public-health agencies, sharing a steadfast commitment of

  • PLU launched a campaign to fund improvements across the Rieke Science Center and the Nursing Clinical Learning and Simulation Center.

    This campaign to renovate the Rieke Science Center and an exam room in the Nursing Clinical Learning and Simulation Center is the next step in PLU science education to serve a thriving community. Together, we are creating opportunities for students to unlock their potential, ignite their passion for scientific exploration, and have a transformative impact on community well-being.

  • October 22, 2012 Care for the world, service to mankind By Chris Albert Brian Bradshaw ’07 was walking down the stairs of his residence hall when he saw a young woman crying in the lobby. She had a bad day and it had destroyed her in that moment. Bradshaw was planning on going skiing that day. He stopped to talk to her and after listening said, “Come with me.” The young woman responded, “But you’re going skiing?” He said, “Yeah and you’re coming with me.” They spent the day on the slopes and

  • The PLU School of Nursing offers a Post Graduate Nurse Practitioner Certificate for two advanced practice specialty areas, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse

    Education The American Psychiatric Nurses Association The Family Nurse Practitioner specialty focuses on client-centered clinical practice, and prepares nurses to respond to the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s health care consumers, to manage direct care based on advanced assessment and diagnostic reasoning, to incorporate health promotion and disease prevention interventions into health care delivery, and to recognize their potential for professional growth, responsibility, and autonomy. Successful

    Graduate Admission
    Pacific Lutheran University 12180 Park Avenue South Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • Company. The Center doubles the space available to the School of Nursing and will transform PLU nursing students’ clinical learning environment. The space features: A 16-bed inpatient clinical lab with adjacent clinical teaching space Two simulation labs for advanced practice care Several large capacity classrooms Camera-assisted debrief rooms Faculty offices Common space for students Main Floor An artists rendering of the main floor of the new PLU Nursing Center. (McGranahan Architects) Upper Floor

  • Sustainability at PLU focuses on three key components: care for people, care for the planet, and prosperity, both now and in the future.

    environments. Thus we: ● Work collectively to reimagine models and practices that create ecological, social, and economic systems and relationships where all can thrive, today and in the future. ● Affirm sustainability efforts that respect, care for, and lift up those communities most disadvantaged by ecological degradation, communities both human and non-human, both local and global. ● Immediately establish and nurture a long-term sustainability strategy, which permeates throughout the PLU community and

    Sustainability Environmental Services
    Center for Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • happening within six hours, much faster than it would occur in a community setting otherwise, Royce-Davis says. It isn’t just the on-campus PLU community finding ways to support students, the local community, alumni and donors have also stepped up. On Giving Tuesday, an annual one-day fundraiser in November, the PLU community raised more than $40,000 for a new clinical care coordinator and crisis counselor. Royce-Davis says the clinical care coordinator likely will have a background in social work with