Photo by pxhere.com By Mike Pocza, JRN 111 Student For more than two years, nurses across the country have been living in survival mode. Burnout, anxiety and depression have won the battle over many of them, leading them to leave the profession and creating a vicious circle in which understaffing leads to increased burnout. “In talking with nurses and others on the health care team, I hear over and over,…
Photo by Marcus Collins Moraine culinary students Carmen Ortiz and Bernadette Sarabia show their green Cleared4Class screens to show proof of their vaccinations/negative COVID tests. By Mariah Trujillo, News Editor, and Ethan Holesha, Managing Editor Using both the carrot and stick approach toward getting students vaccinated against COVID-19 appears to be working at Moraine. Across the country, governments and private businesses have been luring people with “carrots” — incentives ranging…
Photo by Ethan Holesha Sophomore student Ethan Campagna shows his green screen on the updated Cleared4Class system. A green screen shows proof of vaccination or proof of a negative COVID test for Moraine Valley students and staff. By Ethan Holesha, Features Editor, and Mariah Trujillo, News Editor Although the number of vaccinated students at Moraine has more than doubled since Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued a mandate in early September, only…
Photo by Ethan Holesha Freshman student Josh Fernandez (left) and math professor Bozena Lazarska (right) show their “Cleared4Class” screens in room A 184 in building A. A green screen represents a negative COVID-19 test and a blue screen represents someone who is already vaccinated. By Ethan Holesha, Features Editor, and Mariah Trujillo, News Editor With confusion and glitches surrounding the new Clear4Class application, Moraine Valley is extending leniency to enforcement…
Photo by Ethan Holesha Even while studying outdoors, sophomore Tee Oluwadiya and freshman Sets Adeyemo continue to take COVID precautions. While they removed their masks for the photo, other students are socially distancing and masking at other tables outside the L building. By Ethan Holesha, Features Editor, and Mariah Trujillo, News Editor Less than half of Moraine Valley students reported being vaccinated against COVID-19 as of late last week, despite…
Photo by Joey Fernandez Joseph Montaganl (left), who is not a Moraine student, along with Moraine science majors Abraham Jaramill and Kevin Szypulinski, take advantage of a vaccine clinic on campus. By JRN 111 Students Moraine Valley students had mixed reactions last week to a new mandate requiring all higher education students and employees in Illinois to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Gov. JB Pritzker issued the mandate Aug. 26 in…
By Paige Doherty, COM 101 Student Joanna Danko rarely cries over a patient, but she will never forget the day she had to take a COVID patient off life support. “A 70-year-old man came into the emergency room, saying that he wasn’t feeling too well and wanted to get checked out,” says Danko, a respiratory therapist at Palos Community Hospital. “He came in walking and talking fine. Over the next…
By Jack Zampillo, Opinion Editor If you’re transferring to another college or university in the fall, you might be required to be vaccinated. Or you might be able to go to class without a mask. As colleges across the country seek a safe way to return to full-capacity classrooms, approaches vary widely, with some raising ethical concerns. At one school in Michigan, students are required to wear a device that…
