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Addiction Nursing Care courses encourage informed, compassionate care

WVU SCHOOL OF NURSING Through two West Virginia University School of Nursing continuing professional development courses, nurses and other healthcare providers in the state can better understand the needs of patients with substance use disorder (SUD) and how to best treat them. Addiction Nursing Care features two courses — Office-Based Medication Assisted Treatment (OBMAT) and Nursing Competencies in Addiction Care. “In our state in particular, anybody in healthcare practice is going to encounter people with substance use disorder. You just can’t avoid it, whether ...

Mountain Line to start fall schedule on Monday

Beginning Monday, Mountain Line will begin its Fall Schedule in Morgantown and Monongalia County. The routes Blue & Gold (Route 38): Evening service will run Monday through Friday from 6:40-8:40 p.m. This service will run throughout the Fall and Spring Semesters, including the breaks. West Run (Route 30): Daily service from 7:10 a.m.-4:50 p.m. will continue to run as it does year round. West Run Express (Route 30): Evening service will run Monday through Friday from 5:10-8:30 p.m., with the exception of Fall, Winter and Spring Breaks. West Run Late Night (Route 30): ...

Move-in Day

West Virginia University students will be returning to Morgantown this week. Residence hall move-in started Thursday and runs through Saturday. The first day of classes is Aug. 18. The return of FallFest highlights Welcome Week which also began Thursday, and continues through the ...

Coliseum parking no longer free

Very little is free and that now includes daily parking at the WVU Coliseum. West Virginia University recently told students, faculty and staff that beginning Aug. 17 they could no longer park at the Coliseum for free. Many park there, walk to the Engineering PRT and ride to classes on another campus, or walk to buildings on the Evansdale Campus. WVU classes begin Aug. 17, following Welcome Week, which begins Thursday. Parking at the coliseum will be $1, plus a 25-cent fee, payable via a mobile app. That was explained in the following notification sent out by the ...

Dollars for Disaster effort at WVU relaunches

WVU TODAY West Virginia University is stepping up to support residents affected by flooding in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia with the relaunch of Dollars for Disaster, a campus-wide disaster response effort organized through the Center for Community Engagement. “WVU is ready and willing to pull together resources to support local communities that are in need at any moment,” Kristi Wood-Turner, assistant dean for community engagement and director of the Center for Community Engagement, said. “Often, we have fellow Mountaineers that are ...

WVU Medicine celebrates West Virginia Donor Day

WVU MEDICINE WVU Medicine joined Donate Life West Virginia and organizations around the state in celebration of West Virginia Donor Day on Monday. Hundreds of West Virginians are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant. In West Virginia and across the country, there is a critical shortage of registered organ donors. West Virginia Donor Day is celebrated on Aug. 1 each year in recognition of the eight lives that can be saved by one organ donor. With about 500 West Virginians and more than 100,000 individuals nationally currently on the transplant waiting list, the need for ...