INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine has chosen the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON) to receive a 2016 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award. INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine is the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education […]
As part of a series of US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grants of over $149 million awarded to programs throughout the country to help grow and expand healthcare professions, California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) School of Nursing
Meet our Nurse of the Week, Springer Publishing Company’s own Nursing Publisher, Margaret Zuccarini. Margaret was kind enough to share with us her background as a former nurse before her transition into publishing nursing books. After earning her BSN from
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have awarded a one-year, $375,000 contract to the Columbia University School of Nursing. Under the leadership of Patricia Stone, PhD, Centennial Professor of Health Policy at Columbia, a research team will conduct
Each year the US Department of Veterans Affairs selects students to participate in its highly competitive Veterans Affairs Learning Opportunity Residency (VALOR) program. Over the summer, two Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students from Seton Hall University (SHU) were
Through a grant provided by the US Department of Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship (AENT), the Georgia College (GC) School of Nursing received $350,000 to fund nurses in their final year of the Family Nurse
After the catastrophic flooding that devastated Louisiana in late August leaving 40,000 houses damaged and 86,000 people in need of disaster relief, volunteers fled to the front lines to help in any way possible. The flooding was considered one of
Appointed by Dean Sullivan-Marx at the New York University (NYU) Rory Meyers College of Nursing, Dr. Mattia Gilmartin has been named Executive Director of the Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) Program. NICHE was established in 1992 as the
Michele Upvall, PhD, RN, CNE, and professor at the University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Nursing, has been granted a Fulbright Scholar award for the 2016-2017 academic year. The Fulbright Scholar Program promotes connections between US scholars and professionals
A new rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was released on Wednesday, guaranteeing the rights of patients and their families to sue long-term care facilities (i.e. nursing homes). Currently, most nursing homes use arbitration clauses which
