Pacific Union College
One Angwin Avenue
Angwin, CA 94508

Phone: (707) 965-7262
Fax: (707) 965-6499
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Pamela Bobst
(707) 965-7606
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• Nursing Program Expands in Napa For years, nursing students from Pacific Union College have been traveling the 30 miles to Queen of the Valley Medical Center (QVMC) for clinical rotations and, eventually, for job opportunities.
• Department Update Gladys Muir went on a mission trip to North Peru with dental students from LLU, a pediatric nurse practitioner, and a few doctors. As the certified nurse-midwife of the group, Gladys saw women for OB and gyn complaints; she found a 2.5-kilogram pelvic/abdominal tumor in one lady who had walked over five miles for care. They were able to arrange and pay for her to have it removed.
• Department Update The nursing department welcomes new faculty member Laurie Parson, who will coordinate the preceptorship program and teach in the clinical setting. Laurie and her husband lived in Placerville until the beginning of 2008, when they bought a sailing catamaran in Florida and spent most of the rest of the year moving it to the West Coast through the Panama Canal. Laurie attended PUC from 1989 to 1991, and her husband is a nurse at the Clearlake Hospital. They have two cats, Abby and Zibby.
• Department Update Joan Hughson went to her 45-year reunion at San Fernando Valley Academy in Northridge, California, in April and was pleasantly surprised when they awarded her Alumnus of the Year. Joan attended San Fernando all four years before coming to PUC for a year.
• Students Create Podcasts in Biology and Nursing Teachers understand that the modern world has drastically rearranged students' reception and absorption of knowledge. Pacific Union College professors Shana Ruggenberg and Aimee Wyrick address the new mentality by implementing multi-media devices such as the podcast into class curriculum.