News
Nursing and JHG open academic support center
10/5/21
The Johanniter Humanitarian Group (JHG) of Texas partnered with Mike A. Myers and the Mike A. Myers Foundation to launch the Myers – JHG Tutoring and Academic Support Center in addition to funding 10 Texas Nursing Scholars.
Dallas nursing students win volunteer award
9/14/21
Dallas nursing students in the community health course have won the 2021 Tom Black Volunteer of the Year award from the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB). The award is one of the organization’s highest honors.
TWU faculty and students use occupational therapy to alleviate trauma in minors
7/19/21
When Dallas opened an emergency shelter for unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in North Central America in spring 2021, Texas Woman’s School of Occupational Therapy faculty and students jumped at the opportunity to use their skills to help. Much like when the field of occupational therapy supported people experiencing occupational deprivation in the old psychiatric hospitals and tuberculosis asylums 100 years ago, this shelter needed help to provide meaningful activities and support an environment that allowed minors to heal.
Putting service into physical therapy practice
7/6/21
For many Texas Woman’s students, there is nothing more exciting and rewarding than putting the education they received in the classroom into real-world practice, especially when it involves serving others. That is exactly what nine Dallas Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students discovered on their service trip to Puerto Rico in May, when they helped those who needed their skills the most.
Nurse living dream of flight, care
3/23/21
Stories and pictures from her grandfather’s time flying and jumping out of helicopters in Vietnam always fascinated Elyse Moody. While choppers are an integral part of her work these days, the focus of her dream job as a flight nurse with PHI Air Medical is more about putting patients into them.