{"id":30953,"date":"2018-03-26T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=30953"},"modified":"2018-03-26T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:53:00","slug":"nursing-students-donate-179-bears-to-hospital-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=30953","title":{"rendered":"Nursing students donate 179 bears to hospital patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30954\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0107.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30954\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0107-750x497.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0107-750x497.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0107-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0107-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0107-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0107-1400x927.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Beth-El Student Nurses Association deliver bears to patients in the Sixth Annual Build-A-Bear event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-30956\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0012-298x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0012-298x450.jpg 298w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0012-768x1159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0012-745x1125.jpg 745w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0012-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0012-1192x1800.jpg 1192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a>After months of fundraising and building, members of the Beth-El Student Nurses&#8217; Association started delivering custom bears to children at UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central and Penrose-St. Francis Hospital in Colorado Springs. It&#8217;s the sixth straight year students at the UCCS Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences have spearheaded the drive.<\/p>\n<p>Students and volunteers assembled the 179 bears March 10 and 11 at the Build-A-Bear Workshop in Chapel Hills Mall before the deliveries started March 21. Bears were dressed in a range of costumes from Hawaiian gear, bunnies and soldiers. Katherine Moore, a senior nursing student and the community service director for BSNA, coordinated the effort this year.<\/p>\n<p>Since the first event in 2013, BSNA members have created and donated 1,108 bears to pediatric patients in Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30969\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0056.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30969\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0056-750x497.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0056-750x497.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0056-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0056-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0056-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0056-1400x927.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BSNA members pose with completed bears.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-30967\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0004-750x497.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0004-750x497.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0004-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0004-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0004-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0004-1400x927.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>After months of fundraising and building, members of the Beth-El Student Nurses&#8217; Association started delivering custom bears to children at local hospitals. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=30953\" title=\"Nursing students donate 179 bears to hospital patients\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-health-and-wellness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_0107.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-83f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30953"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30973,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30953\/revisions\/30973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}