Dr. Marty Olliff's monthly feature celebrates Women's History Month through the photos of Ruth Stewart, a nurse who trained in Dothan in the 1930s.
Hospitals in Wiregrass towns were privately owned and operated until well after World War 2. At one time Dothan had four private hospitals. Two of these – Frasier-Ellis Hospital on South St. Andrews Street and Moody Hospital on North Alice Street – trained nurses to be certified by the State of Alabama and who worked…
About 60 TROY students took part in the simulation, aimed at increasing empathy and understanding toward those living in poverty.
When Brittney Taylor entered the Trojan Center ballroom, she wasn’t expecting her outlook on life to change.
But Taylor, one of about 60 Troy University senior nursing students who took part in a poverty simulation Tuesday morning, learned valuable lessons over the course of just a few hours.
“I learned not to be as judgmental,”…
Faculty members teamed with the Mayo Clinic for research indicating a change is coming in the products patients are fed.
Troy University faculty members from multiple departments are shedding new light on feeding techniques that could improve patient health.
Faculty members from TROY’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, and School of Nursing have spent several years studying the effects of blended tube feeding — in other words, using…
Recent TROY graduate Kimberly Peacock overcame a family tragedy on they way to achieving her goal of a master's degree.
Kimberly Peacock of Pine Mountain, Ga., endured something no parent ever wants to go through. During Peacock’s second semester as a graduate nursing student at TROY, her 20-year-old son passed away.
The devastating loss nearly made Peacock withdraw from the program. However, with the help of family and her professors at the Phenix City Campus,…
