MiraCosta College Nursing Students Serving on the Front Lines of COVID-19 Vaccination Effort
(MCC nursing program at Palomar Health. Photo courtesy MiraCosta College)
Forty-two, second- and third-semester students in the Associate Degree in Nursing Program and 15 students in the Licensed Vocational Nursing Program have volunteered at the Palomar Health vaccination site in Escondido. Licensed vocational nursing students also pitched in at a Sharp Healthcare-operated vaccination center at California State University, San Marcos, a center where MiraCosta College Nursing Program alumna Shelby Miller served as a nurse lead. And some two dozen fourth-semester nursing students secured critical clinical hours working at healthcare centers across the region, providing care to the underserved and homeless.
"This says a lot about MiraCosta College and the program we have here," said n...