Educating NextGen Health Professionals
February 14, 2020
Rachael McGraw has big plans. And they’re not just for herself.
In December, she graduated from St. Catherine University in St. Paul with a master’s degree in nursing education. As McGraw talks about her studies, it becomes clear that this is about more than a career choice.
“We know that the care nurses give makes a difference, not only in how healthy patients are, but how healthy they feel,” McGraw says. Nursing, she notes, “is a science, but it’s also a caring art.” In addition to upper-level classes in disciplines that include physiology and pharmacology, her coursework also addressed questions such as: “What are the caring and the ethics and the passion that drive our work? And, of course, how do we teach that?”