TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Florida State University's College of Nursing students are keeping busy with masks.
When COVID-19 hit, the College of Nursing started looking for ways on how to help.
That's when Lauren Kendall, a professor and DNP, RN at Florida State University College of Nursing, sent a mass email to her graduate and undergraduate students to see who knew how to sew.
She had half a dozen students say they know how to sew.
Laura Henry is one of several students who responded yes to making masks.
She says it's really cool to help out her future colleagues.
"For me it was the best way for me to be able to help right now," said Henry. "We would like to be in the hospital helping, that's our future career goal, but we don't have those skills yet."
"For the College of Nursing, part of our goal is to build nurses who want to contribute to selfless service and truly have an impact on their community," Kendall said.
The professor also made masks for her students and the College of Nursing provided funding for those supplies.
“I just finished a batch of masks for our accelerated students who are actually going to be in clinical this summer," said Kendall. "We have students that need to get out into the community and need to be in the hospital, and what not. So, we felt like we needed to provide them with some level of protection.”
Kendall has a family member who works at Archbold Memorial in Thomasville, and her students have already sent 100 masks to the hospital. The hospital provided the fabric for the masks.
Kendall also plans to make100 masks for the employees at the Home Instead Senior care facility.
