By University of South Alabama
At any given moment, Dr. Nycole Oliver might be found practicing medicine at Baptist Health Family Clinic in Fort Smith, Ark.; staffing her town’s coronavirus testing site, or working on a COVID-19 task force to advocate on behalf of her nursing colleagues.
As a distance learner who earned both a Master of Science in Nursing and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of South Alabama College of Nursing, Oliver honed skills at South that she puts to use every day on her local front line of the coronavirus pandemic. Oliver particularly credits her experience at South for sharpening her self-motivation, time management, and efficiency. “You can’t just look at the present,” she said. “You have to look at everything around you and what’s going to be coming down the pike.”
Oliver’s time management skills have been essential this spring as she’s juggled her various roles related to the pandemic. For the past six weeks, she’s been splitting her time between the primary care clinic where she normally works and her town’s coronavirus testing tent, where roughly 75 people have been tested for COVID-19 each day. During a recent weekend “surge campaign” ordered by Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, the site spiked to nearly 1,000 tests.
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