Letter to the Editor 3/14

You mentioned in the article about the Western Psychatric Institute and Clinic shooting that “no undergraduate academic work gets done there,” which is false. To the Editor,

You mentioned in the article about the Western Psychatric Institute and Clinic shooting that “no undergraduate academic work gets done there,” which is false. Every Pitt nursing student in the undergraduate program has a clinical rotation at Western Psych. There are junior nursing students doing their psych rotation there every semester as well as senior students that may be completing their senior practicum there. I personally know a few students that work there as nursing aides, and we all walk through the lobby of the hospital many times during our undergraduate years. Please don’t forget about every nursing student that has undergraduate academic work at Western Psych. We are lucky that it was Spring Break and that the Pitt nursing students and other students of Pitt were not involved.

Thanks,

Katherine Prior

School of Nursing