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that promote safe, quality and efficient patient care. Clinical Nurse Leader: The Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) is a nursing role developed by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in collaboration with an array of leaders from the practice environment. The CNL is an advanced generalist clinician with education at the master’s degree level.Connect with PLU’s nursing professionals!Now is the time to immerse yourself in an experiential, top-ranked graduate nursing program that will

connection between a PLU student and a student residing in the Parkland area, emphasizing positive relationships’ powerful and restorative nature. For PLU students, it will be an opportunity to understand the surrounding community, as many are not from the area. For Franklin-Pierce students, it will be an opportunity to see beyond their worldview and understand that there are possibilities for them, such as higher education.  With support from Quigg funding, the program organizers can support the initial

needy Parkland families. “Every day I realize the importance of food. It infiltrates everyone’s life,” Mares said. The university encourages students to study away and live lives of service, but it falls short of engaging students with the Parkland community, Mares said. The garden aims to open the Lutedome and better connect students with their neighbors across the street. “Knowing about the farm and the garden create a larger perspective,” Mares said. “It’s an education in how to grow food, what

Explore! because she felt that it could be an opportunity to help broaden her social skills, which she acknowledged would be an asset in her profession. Last-minute participant Amy Larson said that she was contemplating the most critical aspects of her future career and how to find a balance between the importance of a college education and real-world experiences like professional networking. Larson hopes to graduate with a degree in business and work with non-profit organizations. Explore! Student

Assistant in Venezuela Buley will be placed in either one of Venezuela’s universities or at a Binational Center (learning centers affiliated with the U.S. Embassy) as an English teaching assistant. There he will lead language learning classes, facilitate conversation groups and present lectures and discussions on U.S. culture and society. “I decided to apply for an English teaching assistantship to learn more about teaching, to gain experience in the education field and to make a meaningful impact in

Sponsorship for major symposia, annual lectures, seminars and workshops that are crucial to a flourishing academic culture and extend the explicitly academic resources of the university out into the community. “I can’t emphasize enough how important these development opportunities for academics and mission are,” Killen said. “They make it possible for PLU to move into the future with it’s own kind of Wild Hope, profoundly rooted in its Lutheran tradition of higher education.” Killen calls PLU a global