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05/27/2025
Abigail Diaz
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As a part of Roseman University's mission to develop compassionate healthcare workers, the Library is excited to post a brief reflection on Mental Health Month by BSN 2025 student Sante' Thomas, who recently finished her practicum in a mental health setting. An emergent, empathetic nurse, Sante' writes in this piece about closing her mind off from patients for her own sanity and to avoid burnout and ends with a compelling call to action.

 Have you ever taken a moment to consider the thin lines that separate things in life? One we often think about is the line between love and hate. With highly peaked positive emotions it’s easy to spiral and experience extremely negative emotions with the same person. Another fine line, that politics has us looking at lately, is borders between states or countries. They are often very fine lines and stepping across one of these could change your rights or privileges. Recently, during a conversation with a veteran Roseman student I was presented with the fine line between being sane and being insane.

Some people are completely in touch with their emotions, and have their mind and body aligned; but many more are one crisis, traumatic event, or death away from figuratively, “losing their marbles”. 

     Of the different states a human can be in, being clinically insane is the one state where the person experiencing it probably is unaware that they are. When one has unknowingly crossed the thin line from being fully aware of the purpose and interpretation of their actions to being in a mental health crisis, they have lost their ability to discern right from wrong. Sadly, some of us may walk that line daily. As a student nurse who chose mental health for their practicum, I am constantly dimming my empathy. Understanding the point of view of a patient on a legal 2000 hold makes me wonder if I am fully mentally healthy. But half the battle is asking yourself if you are thinking straight. Mental health is often stigmatized, diminished, and ignored as if the status of our ability to communicate and make decisions is less important than the status of our heart or kidney function.

      Whether due to cultural, sexual, or socioeconomic restriction the status of many minds is a back burner topic that is not addressed unless they cross the thin line into insanity. I challenge everyone reading to make a conscious decision to assess their own mind as well as the mental status of those around us. We never know what type of day someone else is having so a smile, compassionate touch or five minutes of active listening, can make all the difference in the world. You may think I’m “crazy” and blasphemous but had one or two elements in your life been different you might be dead, wearing paper scrubs, or crying into a gallon of ice cream. So, de-stigmatize and re-sensitize yourself to the importance of mental health for yourself, those around you, and everyone you interact with.

 

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04/16/2025
Abigail Diaz
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On Saturday, April 12th, students from the Henderson campus of Roseman University joined Wetlands Hands On in volunteering their time to help conservation efforts of the nearby Wetlands Natural Preserve. The students demonstrated their commitment to community service by dedicating their time and energy to picking up trash and debris from the area.

The Wetlands not only provide critical habitat for a wide range of desert plants and different animals species but also serve as an important infrastructure for natural water recycling, filtration, and flood control. Litter and debris can pose a significant threat to these fragile ecosystems, causing harm to wildlife and reducing the overall health and resilience of the wetlands and ultimately making them more vulnerable to the Las Vegas extreme heat.

The students' efforts were greatly appreciated by the Wetlands Hands On team, who rely on volunteers to help keep the area clean and safe for visitors, as well as attending Clark County Commissioners Jim Gibson and Tick Segerblom. Volunteers cleaned at Sunrise Trailhead and down both sides of Hollywood Boulevard from the trailhead down about 0.7 miles along the dirt road. The 6 teams of volunteers spread out over 44 acres of Wetlands Park and adjacent park land. By the end of the 2-hour event, the trash filled nearly three 40-yard dumpsters. Cumulatively, our volunteer teams collected 263 large landscaper bags of trash weighing in at a whopping 4,198 pounds!!

As future Healthcare Professionals, our students’ selfless efforts serve as an inspiring example that giving back and taking care of our community can take shape in many ways. 

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04/09/2025
profile-icon Emily Espanol
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Funding Trouble in the Public Library

Along with the rest of the country, the Roseman University community has weathered a number of dubious decisions cast down from the highest seat in the realm. The mission-driven work at our university proudly continues in the face of adversity—from ASPIRE and related initiatives that inspire marginalized youth to envision themselves as the future of our nation’s healthcare workforce to the EMPOWER program that improves health outcomes for mothers with opioid use disorder.

But the library witnesses troubling waters next door. Our neighbors in the public library face complete budget cuts after the March 14 executive order titled Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy limited budget requests to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) which provides money to states to fund their public libraries. In the coming weeks, we may see a request to Congress to grant only the funds to shut down the agency and effectively close America’s public libraries.

Throughout history, public libraries have earned the love of their users through the provision of free access to information in the form of books, computers and wifi, story times, programming, libraries of things, and other revolutionary programming to serve community members from all socioeconomic backgrounds, some of whom achieved greatness.

Now the library needs you and your stories of libraries delivering on their mission to facilitate democracy through open and free access to information. 

Write and call our Members of Congress and tell your story about the library and tell five other people to take action. Find more links to call and write from the American Library Association’s Action Center.

Read others’ stories for inspiration: 

Maya Angelou [poet, author]: “All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open… Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else. There may be details that are different, but a human being is a human being.

Ray Bradbury [author]: “I’m completely library educated… I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.”

John Green [author, vlogger]: “I could not have written this book [Everything is Turberculosis, 2025] without libraries, librarians, and archivists who helped me with everything from understanding 18th-century corsetry to where my great-uncle Stokes died. My great-uncle had tuberculosis and died in a sanatorium in Asheville, North Carolina, and I’d always known that [he died of TB], but I’d never known where he died, the circumstances of his death, or how long he was a patient there. An archivist helped me understand that. I did a lot of the writing here at the Indianapolis Public Library."

References

Bennet, M. (2025, March 3). Newsmaker: John Green. American Libraries. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/03/03/newsmaker-john-green/

Inouye, A. S. (2025, March 19). White House attacks libraries. American Libraries. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/white-house-attacks-libraries/

Montefinise, A. (2010, October 29). Interview: How libraries changed Maya Angelou’s life. Huffington Post. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/interview-how-libraries-c_b_775980

The White House. (2025, March 14). Continuing the reduction of the federal bureaucracy [Executive order]https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/

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04/07/2025
profile-icon Emily Espanol
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The Roseman eCommons brings all Roseman research under one umbrella to preserve, promote, and provide access to that research. With author tools to track visitors and view global readership, the eCommons provides the perfect platform to measure Roseman's research impact.

Join Connor Dandridge, MLIS, for an overview of what our institutional repository has to offer and learn more about how the Roseman eCommons can support you and your research.

Event begins Wednesday, April 9, at 1:30 pm PT/2:30 pm MT. Register online via Zoom.

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04/01/2025
profile-icon Emily Espanol
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EndNote is a handy citation management software that helps you organize and keep track of all your research sources. It allows you to easily store, manage, and format your references and bibliographies, saving you time and effort when writing papers or creating reports. 

The Endnote Essentials workshop is designed to provide faculty, students, and research assistants with a solid foundation in using EndNote for managing references and citations. Attendees will learn how to set up and customize their EndNote library, import and organize references, and seamlessly integrate Endnote with Microsoft Word. 

A librarian will also be available in person in SJ Classroom 220 and on Zoom to help troubleshoot any issues that you are having with EndNote and to make sure you are set up for success!

Register today.

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03/24/2025
Abigail Diaz
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Imagine being repeatedly told "no," not because of your abilities or intelligence, but simply because you're a woman. That was the reality for Elizabeth Blackwell, a woman who faced rejection after rejection but refused to give up. In 1849, she made history by becoming the first woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree. She truly embodied Maya Angelou’s words: "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." Becoming a doctor wasn’t something she had ever dreamed of, especially in a time when the medical field was so overwhelmingly male. But one day, a close friend of hers, who was very ill, shared something that stayed with her forever: "I would have suffered less if my doctor had been a woman." Those words struck her deeply, making her realize that there was a real need for women in medicine, and from that moment on, she knew she had to pursue it. 

 

Fighting for Her Place in Medicine 

In the 1800s, the thought of a woman becoming a doctor was almost unimaginable. Every medical school she applied to turned her away—some dismissed her outright, while others suggested she disguise herself as a man if she truly wanted to practice medicine. Then, Geneva Medical College made an unusual decision: they let the male students vote on whether she should be admitted. Believing it to be a joke, they voted “yes,” assuming she wouldn’t last. But they didn’t realize who they were dealing with. Once she was in, the challenges didn’t stop. Professors ignored her, classmates ridiculed her, and hospitals refused to let her observe patients. But Elizabeth wasn’t about to back down. Instead of letting the hostility get to her, she excelled. In 1849, she not only earned her medical degree but graduated first in her class, making history as the first woman in the U.S. to do so. 

Building a Future for Women in Medicine 

Even with her degree, hospitals wouldn’t hire her. She went to Europe for more training, only to be pushed into roles as a midwife or nurse—because that was what women were "supposed" to do. Frustrated but determined, she returned to the U.S. and took matters into her own hands. Along with her sister, Dr. Emily Blackwell, she opened the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children in 1857. It wasn’t just about treating patients—it was about training future female doctors so they wouldn’t have to fight the same battles she did. In 1868, she founded the Woman’s Medical College, a place where women could study medicine without fear of being turned away. 

A Legacy That Lives On 

Elizabeth Blackwell didn’t just become a doctor—she changed the world. Because of her, women in medicine are no longer the exception. Today, nearly 50% of medical students in the U.S. are women. 

She once said, 


"If society will not admit of women's free development, then society must be remodeled." 

And she remodeled it. Her story is a proof that sometimes, all it takes is one person to refuse to take "no" for an answer—and in doing so, they open the door for thousands of others. 

 

 

Thank you to Jashanpreet Kaur from the ABSN 2024 cohort for submitting this piece. 

 

 

References: 

  1. Blackwell, E. (1895). Pioneer work in opening the medical profession to women: autobiographical sketches. Longmans, Green, and Co. 

  1. Nallamotu, S., Vankayalapati, A., & Paruchuri, S. (2024). Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910): Opening doors to women in medicine. Cureus, 16(10), e71899. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.71899. 

  1. Thakur, J., Choudhari, S. G., & Gaidhane, A. (2024). Pioneering physician: Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and the path to medical history. Cureus, 16(9), e68713. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.68713. 

  1. Tan, S. Y., & Tasaki, A. (2006). Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910): America's first woman doctor. Singapore medical journal, 47(9), 739–740. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16924352/. 

 

 

 

 

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03/24/2025
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Never be confounded by a paywall again! Join Connor Schwartz, MLIS, to identify full-text resources online and learn to use interlibrary loan through Roseman University Library when all else fails.

By the end of this workshop, participants will learn…

  • To identify and access full-text resources.
  • To use Google Scholar, Ebsco Discovery Service, and Find Journal by Title to access full-text resources
  • To request full-text resources through interlibrary loan.

This is a hybrid event. Attend in-person in Classroom 220 on the South Jordan campus or online via Zoom. Register online to attend and receive the recording and resources.

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02/28/2025
profile-icon Tiffany Garrett
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Today marks my final day as the Director of Library Services at Roseman University of Health Sciences. I have accepted a new position at Dartmouth College and will be moving to New Hampshire with my family.

While I am excited about this next chapter, it is bittersweet as it means I am saying goodbye to Roseman. I have relished the opportunity to grow with this University over the last three years. I've seen so many librarians and staff step up and flourish, and I'm proud to have been a part of their journeys.

I'm particularly excited to share that Margo Duncan, our Head of Electronic Resources and Collection Development, will be stepping into the role of Director. Margo came to Roseman from the University of Texas at Tyler in 2022. Over the past two years, she has proven herself to be an essential leader and indispensable collaborator. Her user-focused approach to decision-making keeps the library focused on the needs of those we serve. Her commitment to supporting the library team has contributed to promotions of entry-level librarians and the professional growth of support staff.

I'm confident the library will continue to thrive under Margo's leadership. It's a comfort to know that the future of the library is in such dedicated and capable hands. I will truly miss working with this wonderful community and wish you all continued success.

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01/13/2025
profile-icon Tia Parry
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You asked and we delivered! After reviewing your responses to the Student Services Survey, the library has implemented a number of  changes to get 2025 started off right, such as improving our soundproofing, adding more comfy seating, making markers more easily available, and more. While a majority of changes are concentrated on our library spaces at the South Jordan campus, Henderson patrons need not worry: all feedback is still being noted to improve your experiences in the new year. Come see what we've done, and let us know how we can continue to serve you better!

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11/01/2024
profile-icon Emily Espanol
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In many Hispanic cultures, the souls of relatives and ancestors are believed to return to the land of the living on November 1 and 2 to celebrate Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), sometimes also called Todos Santos (All Saints’ Day). 

 

Colorful altars decorated with flowers and photos
Roseman University Library Altars (Henderson, left; South Jordan, right)

This year, the Roseman University Library is honored to welcome the memories of our community’s loved ones at our campus ofrendas, collaboratively built with the Hispanic Student Dental Association in South Jordan and Business & Finance in Henderson.

Day of the Dead is not the same as Halloween. It is a time to celebrate the memories of those who have passed and recognize that death is an integral part of life. Instead of a holiday for ghosts and frights, Día de los Muertos represents a joyful reunion and the continuation of a legacy.

 

For many traditions in Latin America and the Philippines, the holiday is the result of blending indigenous and Catholic as a product of religious syncretism. Families gather, visit cemeteries, clean graves, and create ofrendas (altars) to welcome the deceased back with fruits, flowers, and their favorite items. On our altars, you will find photos, water, flowers, papel picado, and representations of favorite indulgences. 

There are so many resources to learn more about this holiday. Here are some favorites:

If you miss someone and are unable to visit where they lay, please visit your campus library to print and place a photo.

Special thanks to our friends in Business & Finance and the Hispanic Student Dental Association for their generous collaboration.

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