A nurse wearing scrubs, a face mask, and a stethoscope stands outside the UNC Cancer Hospital, with a blue water tower and modern hospital buildings visible in the background on a sunny day.

The Daily Tarheel: Student nurses work on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic

As general care floors in hospitals turned into COVID-19 triages, students became practitioners and classroom education shifted to the grim reality of treating the victims of a pandemic. Students in the UNC School of Nursing have spent the last year consumed like the rest of us by the coronavirus — but running toward it rather than away. Read more via The Daily Tarheel.