Students in the UD School of Nursing, along with other College of Health Sciences students, have been assisting with coronavirus testing on campus during the fall semester.
The training is a part of their curriculum and also gives them clinical hours that are needed in order to graduate.
(Nursing major Shaena Friedman at testing site in the above video from the University of Delawre)
The Covid-19 surveillance testing underway this fall at the University of Delaware is part of an ongoing effort to keep students, faculty and staff safe, but it also gives students like senior nursing major Shaena Friedman the chance to get community health experience.
Friedman is one of nearly four dozen nursing students volunteering with the surveillance testing, along with students from the athletic training education program and graduate students in the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology and the Department of Physical Therapy.
Weather permitting, testing generally takes place twice a week at Harrington Hall Turf Field on East Campus and Independence Turf Field. The goal is to test 1,000 students, staff and faculty weekly. UD’s saliva-based COVID-19 tests are approved by the state of Delaware and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Results are emailed within 16 hours of testing.
“We’re excited that the students will be a part of this surveillance and really stepping into a leadership role,” said Kathleen S. Matt, dean of the College of Health Sciences.
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See the link below to an earlier story on the impact of UD Covid-19 on statewide figures on positive cases.
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