Kalie Townsend, a Viterbo graduate and current Doctor of Nursing Practice student, will publicly defend her doctoral project at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 17 in the School of Nursing Building room 195.

The Viterbo community is invited to attend. Townsend’s project is titled “Implementation of a Point of Care Test for Conjunctivitis to Improve Antibiotic Stewardship: A Pilot Project.”

Townsend and four other DNP students are scheduled to be the program’s first graduates in May.