MWSU nursing students work the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic

This past year, nursing students at Missouri Western State University turned the pandemic into their classroom and joined the frontlines. Some 60 nursing students were thrust into aiding during a once-in-a-lifetime public health crisis. Students receiving real life on the job training by helping administer coronavirus vaccines at local community clinics as part of their schooling. Rylee Ellis, a 3rd semester nursing student at MWSU, said the experience has been invaluable, “I know one of my nursing teachers said we have probably already given more vaccines as students than she ever has in her nursing career.”