UMSON faculty, staff, and students, in the midst of the chaos of a pandemic year, found adaptive, flexible, resourceful, and innovative ways to continue working and learning.
While many would describe the past year with words such as challenging, difficult, lonely, and fearful, that only paints a partial picture for University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON) faculty, staff, and students, who, in the midst of the chaos of a pandemic year, found adaptive, flexible, resourceful, and innovative ways to continue working and learning.
Stay-at-home orders in March 2020 left everyone suspended in freeze-frame fashion, emptying offices and classrooms on extremely short notice. Remote learning and telework, first thought to be needed only for the short term, soon became a way of life for the UMSON community. Yet, even as the world stood still in one sense, to maintain the rigorous standards required for educating the state’s nursing workforce, UMSON discovered new paths forward.
After all, 2020 was not only the year of a global pandemic, as designated by the World Health Organization, it was also the International Year of the Nurse.