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The University of Texas School of Nursing at Houston has a proud and enviable history of leading the nursing field with highly qualified and in- demand graduates. The many hospitals and research institutions of the Texas Medical Center are the primary beneficiaries of our school’s ability to graduate such well-educated, dedicated and driven care-givers. Nursing students who are graduated from the UT School of Nursing are eagerly awaited and aggressively recruited by the leading-edge health care community of the Texas Medical Center. Our graduates have almost limitless opportunities to specialize, study, research and practice alongside many of the world’s leading medical luminaries on the cutting edge of the medical arts and sciences. They make a difference.
In fact, no matter where our graduates go after completing their nursing education with us, they will always make a difference in their patients’ lives. The UT School of Nursing at Houston prepares them for a life in nursing that is not only a career, but also a rewarding profession.
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Called to Care
In late summer of 2005, one of the nation’s most devastating natural disasters, Hurricane Katrina, struck the Gulf Coast, sending an estimated 200,000 evacuees into Texas, with more than 30,000 of them taking shelter in various Houston sports arenas and the city’s convention center.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston mobilized to provide desperately needed health care to disaster victims who had lost their homes, been separated from their families and been stranded without food, water or sanitation for days on end.
UT Medical School assisted with evacuating patients from New Orleans hospitals and staffed the on-site clinics in the shelters. UT School of Public Health’s Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Preparedness provided critical assistance in Rapid Needs Assessment activities to help fight the spread of disease among the victims.
And the UT School of Nursing sent volunteer nurses and nurse practitioners to work at the Reliant Astrodome and George R. Brown Convention Center shelters, while qualified UT School of Nursing students helped triage the incoming evacuees and provide compassionate care to all who needed it – from elderly, disabled and confused adults to newborns.
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