Last week, Florida lawmakers passed a new bill to make Florida the final state in the union to grant Advanced Practice Registered Nurses the authority to prescribe controlled drugs to patients. Independent prescribing, or prescriptive authority, does not require collaboration with a […]
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The University of Rhode Island has named Barbara Wolfe, the associate dean for research and professor at the Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, to lead its School of Nursing starting this summer. Wolfe started at BC in 2004
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The Jonas Center of Nursing will hold a gala in New York City next week to recognize the Center’s achievements in nursing education over the past 10 years. The March 18th gala will celebrate the center’s achievements – bringing together
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Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that nursing is still growing – alongside the entire healthcare workforce in the February Jobs Report. The US economy added 57,000 new healthcare and social assistance jobs in February, with 24,000 new jobs in
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The National Institute of Nursing Research has awarded Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing a $2.37 million grant to study videoconferencing for distance caregivers. The grant will be supported by the NINR to help link cancer patients with their families through
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The Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare has awarded three doctoral grants to doctoral students at the University at Buffalo School of Nursing starting in the fall of 2016. The University of Buffalo School of Nursing joins more than 1,000 future nurse educators and leaders
Penn Nursing’s Barbara Medoff-Cooper, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been selected for induction into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame by Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The STTI Hall of Fame was developed to recognize nurse researchers for their lifetime
Frontier Nursing University recently partnered with the the FSIL School of Nursing in Haiti to develop a nurse-midwifery program to improve maternal-child health in the country. The Episcopal University of Haiti or FSIL, is the top ranked nursing program in Haiti.
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Two unions that represent nurses in New York State are actively pursuing safe-staffing criteria in Albany to pass a mandatory staffing law. New York State Nurses Association, the state’s largest nurses union, and the Communications Workers of America are attempting
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The Lienhard School of Nursing in the College of Health Professions at Pace University is set to receive a $40,000 grant from the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare. The grant, which will be matched by Pace University to
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