In honor of CRNA Week, our Nurses of the Week are two Columbia University nursing students who traveled to Ecuador on a surgical mission. Julian Piazzola and William Scott, both members of the Columbia Nursing Class of 2018, jumped at […]
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro recently interviewed Peter Buerhaus, a nursing professor and healthcare economist at Montana State University, about the changing nursing industry. Following a previous call-in with nurses around the country to hear their thoughts about the future of the
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Nursing education is done a little differently at Linfield College. We pride ourselves on creating innovative methods in which aspiring nurses can learn and grow into strong and competent professionals. One of the many ways in which that is done
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The Empire State recently became the first state in the nation to require nurses to obtain a bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN). Signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo at the beginning of January, the bill requires that new nurses obtain a
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Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) Week runs this week from January 21 to 27 and is an excellent opportunity for student nurses to find out more about this path in a nursing career. With more than 52,000 nurse anesthetists and
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When correctional nurse author and educator Lorry Schoenly, PhD, RN, was writing a book about nursing in prison, her publisher asked her who would buy the book. “We were trying to figure out how many correctional nurses there are,” said
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Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN, professor and director of the PhD program at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON), has been named director of the Center for Innovative Care in Aging. Szanton is set to take over the
January 21 through 27 is National CRNA Week, and we’re celebrating by getting up-close and personal with the CRNAs who make the medical world go round! Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) safely administer about 43 million anesthetics each year, making
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Our Nurse of the Week is Donna Manning, a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), who is now giving back to her university and profession after finding her calling. After coming close to quitting nursing school in her
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With HIV becoming an epidemic in Narva, Estonia, six recent nursing graduates from Harford Community College (HCC) traveled to Estonia to educate high school students about HIV/AIDS prevention. Rather than completing the typical practicum needed to graduate, these students chose
