Bermel and Wojcak are two of 20 second-year students working on the project through Service Learning, a hybrid program of community service and internships. Students will continue to interview past and present visiting nurses to put together a timeline of the organization's history back to its founding in 1948. This kind of research is normally done on the baccalaureate level. Wojcak and Bermel's questions ranged from whether nurses wore caps when Schwartz started working to the subject of men breaking into the field. Men haven't been involved until the last five years.
Some patients appreciate it.
Students Glanda Gonzalez of the Franklin section of Somerset and Romina Tolentino of Hillsborough volunteered to run the project and learn more about different aspects of nursing in the process.