Today’s celebration of National School Nurse Day is recognition that school nurses are an integral and essential part of any school community. And while a school nurse’s mission has remained steady over the years, the job responsibilities and job duties […]
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Spacelabs Healthcare, a medical equipment manufacturer based in Washington, has invested $720,000 into the University of Massachusetts Amherst Center at Springfield’s nursing laboratory. The generous investment will benefit UMass Amherst’s College of Nursing Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program,
Student nurses don’t need anyone to tell them their lives are busy. With school, work, families, and a personal life, many student nurses are juggling more than most people. Tamar Rodney, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC, CNE | PhD-c, is a Geneva
Despite a nationwide nursing shortage that continues to worsen, schools across the country are being forced to turn away qualified applicants due to a lack of nursing educators who are available to teach. Unable to expand class sizes, helping bridge
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As part of National Nurses Week, Minority Nurse is exploring the many paths nurses take to find a career where they feel like they are making an impact. Irma Teune, BSN RN MSCN CCM is a bilingual clinical nurse educator
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On May 5th each year, Frontier Nursing University recognizes International Day of the Midwife by focusing on the outcomes of midwifery-led care. While we celebrate the role of nurse-midwives, one of our main goals as a leading educator is to
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Three health sciences colleges at The Ohio State University (OSU) have recently received national recognition for the quality and effectiveness of their diversity and inclusion initiatives. The colleges of medicine, nursing, and veterinary medicine were all recipients of the 2017
When a patient is undergoing organ transplant surgery, there are teams of people involved in everything before, during, and after the procedure. Jenna Vinje, RN, CNOR, a circulating and scrub nurse on the Peripheral Vascular and Liver Transplant team at
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The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHSON) has received a $6 million gift to expand its current nursing building. The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation of Philadelphia graciously donated the gift to help fund the necessary expansion.
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The NCLEX: the ultimate goal for every nursing student—and, the source of constant anxiety, stress, and sleepless nights. Nursing school exams are supposedly modeled after it, giving us multiple-choice questions where there are always two good answers, and we “have
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