Nursing
October 23, 2025
150 highschool students at Nursing and Public Health Career Day
Carrie Eikler, admission visits and events manager, found herself closing the Goshen College Nursing and Public Health Career Day sign-up form for this year after the event received 150 student reservations. The admissions office hosted high-school nursing and EMT students from all over Indiana at the Westlawn Center for Nursing and Public Health on Friday, Oct. 10. This event pulled in a record number of students attendees. “I don’t think we’ve hit [this number of students] before, but we have been at the 120 mark with nursing events,” Eikler said. As the events manager, she starts preparing some admissions events...
January 16, 2025
Center for Nursing and Public Health
The start of the spring semester marks the beginning of the first classes held in Goshen College’s brand-new Center for Nursing and Public Health. This state-of-the-art facility marks the final stage of the $21 million Westlawn Hall renovation. Nursing faculty relocated from Wyse Hall to the administrative suite, found on the second floor of Westlawn, in December, a week after students left. The new nursing center has triple the square footage of the old space in Wyse Hall, three inpatient simulation rooms, an exam room and a 10-bed skills lab. Jewel Yoder, who is a professor of nursing, chair of...
October 10, 2024
GC goes public with campaign
On Friday, Oct. 4, Goshen College announced the public phase of their “Connected Cause” campaign after raising $60 million of $68 million during the first three years, making it the largest campaign in GC history, according to a spokesperson for the college. “Connected Cause is rooted in the mission and values that have guided Goshen College for more than 130 years,” President Becky Stoltzfus said in a press release. “It is designed to support thriving students, integrating academic excellence with real-world learning and active love for God and neighbor.” The quiet phase of the campaign began in June of 2021...
September 9, 2022
Mast joins Westlawn remodeling project
Goshen College is continuing Westlawn renovations this semester with a new director of facilities at the helm. Brian Mast will be overseeing the project alongside Cynthia Good Kaufmann, director of planning and events, and Ben Bontrager, vice president for operations. Last year, this project was headed by Bontrager and Good Kaufmann, the latter of whom served as interim facilities director. “When I was in that role, I was called director of everything because I also was director of events,” she said. Over the summer, the interim facilities director was split into the director of facilities position and the director of...
April 14, 2022
GC hires four new faculty members
Next year, there will be some new faces at the front of classrooms. Goshen College has hired four new faculty members in the departments of religion, sustainability, Master of Social Work (MSW), biology and nursing. Luke Kreider, currently a lecturer of Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School, will join the faculty in a unique joint position, dividing his time between the religion, justice and society department and the sustainability department. Kreider said he is “interested in the connections between peace, justice and sustainability issues.” Kreider’s area of research ties together some of the interdisciplinary causes of climate change, and he...
February 11, 2022
Nursing department to find new home in Westlawn
As part of Goshen College’s long-term master plan, the second and third floors of Westlawn Dining Hall will soon be the new home for the nursing department. The floors were residential halls in decades past, but now sit dormant. Almost a quarter of GC students major in nursing, making it the largest program at the school, and it is currently filled to capacity in its current home on the 2nd floor of Wyse Hall. Jewel Yoder, head of the nursing department, said when both undergraduate and graduate students are on campus, “the floor is extremely busy and crowded.” Lydia Holsopple,...
September 30, 2021
Nursing welcomes Sister Veronica
This fall, Sister Veronica Adeduro is beginning her first year of teaching as an assistant professor of nursing at Goshen College. She is the first nun to teach at GC. Adeduro is from Nigeria, where she worked as a registered nurse for many years. She later went on to serve as a missionary in Germany for five years before making the move to the United States. Adeduro shared that “the joy of working in different places is that it makes the people in those places real to me.” She added one thing she has found that all people have in...
September 24, 2020
Nursing students reflect on hospital nights
It’s 1 a.m. You’re asleep in your bed or up finishing that one paper you knew about weeks ago but haven’t started yet. Not Lizzy or Oscar. They are at the hospital working. Lizzy Diaz and Oscar Ramirez Garcia, both senior nursing majors, are night shift workers at Goshen Hospital. “I started working the night shift in The Birthplace last August,” Diaz said. “I stayed on night shift for nine or 10 months. Now I work both days and nights. As a casual employee, I’m able to pick shifts that work for my schedule which is a huge improvement from...
January 24, 2020
Inside the life of a non-traditional college student
When Megan Patterson graduated high school 19 years ago, college wasn’t even on her radar. Now she is in the middle of her sophomore year of undergraduate studies, working toward her nursing degree. She met with me on Tuesday morning to talk about what it is like to be a non-traditional student in a college built for students with half as much life experience as her. “At 37 years old, you have done a lot of this,” Patterson said. Patterson, who worked as a career firefighter and EMT for 17 years, has two children and a part-time job at a...
September 7, 2017
GC and EMU launch collaborative Doctor of Nursing Practice program
Goshen College and Eastern Mennonite University are thrilled to roll out the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program, starting in January 2018. After a three-year process from initial conception to its impending implementation this winter, the online joint-college doctoral program is now open to applicants. Dr. Ruth Stoltzfus, director of graduate programs in nursing at GC and co-chair of the DNP program, is excited by the unique accessibility the program allows. Besides two residency requirements, the courses are entirely online and, as Stoltzfus termed it, asynchronous. “This means we will never meet together,” Stoltzfus said. “For example, we will never...
January 21, 2016
Anna Cullar’s journey across borders and disciplines
Transfer students add a new dimension to our student body every semester. They come as new faces, new perspectives, and new friends. Anna Cullar isn’t your typical transfer student, however. She is a nursing major here at Goshen College, but she spent the first part of her education at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, Ontario as an English major. Cullar chose Conrad Grebel for a variety of reasons. To start, she has dual citizenship in the US and Canada, allowing her to take advantage of Canada’s cheaper college costs. She also loved the appeal of a small liberal arts...
October 1, 2015
Student nurses have 100 percent success
In 2015, every single nursing student in a Goshen College graduating class passed the nursing board exam. GC became only one of four colleges or universities in Indiana to score 100 percent on the nursing board exam, joining schools such as Ivy Tech Community College of Evansville, Ivy Tech Community College of Richmond and Marion Community School of Practical Nursing. Before graduating from the nursing program, students must pass the National Council Licensure Exam for Registered Nurses, often referred to as the NCLEX. This exam is based on safety and patient care management, pharmacology, recognizing and reducing risks, health promotion,...
September 10, 2015
Goshen and Glen Oaks team up
Two weeks ago, Goshen College officially began its new partnership with Glen Oaks Community College. Registered nurses (RN) will now have the opportunity to take part in GC’s RN to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program on Glen Oak’s campus in Centreville, MI, making a bachelor’s degree for nurses in the surrounding area much more accessible. “Glen Oaks wanted to expand their offerings,” said Brenda Srof, professor of nursing, “and make it more possible for their graduates to finish their bachelor’s degrees.” Interest in obtaining a BSN has increased with the recent mandate from the Institute of Medicine calling...
April 23, 2014
Some Nursing Majors Cross Stereotypes
Over 10 nursing majors at GC are men, including Contreras, Berkey, and Kaufman “I remember the first time I visited a brand new hospital,” said Julio Contreras, a first-year nursing major, recollecting the day he decided to become a nurse. Contreras remembered the story of an elderly nurse he had encountered, who shared her story about saving someone’s life. Her patient had been in the hospital for several weeks when the doctor said it was alright to go home. “She didn’t agree with the doctor’s note of release, and urged him to stay – and he did,” said Contreras. “The...