Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring asserts that caring and love transcend distance, space, time, and physicality, and it’s true. Feelings of love, kinship, friendship, grief, and compassion across time and distance confirm our basic shared experience of caring, regardless […]
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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
Nurses are on the front lines of health care, so they know exactly what tools and systems they need to do their jobs. With all that experience and knowledge, nurses realize they have a definite advantage when it comes to
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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
Nursing is so many things. It is critical thinking, technical skills, proficiency and efficiency, prioritizing, strategizing, questioning—using our minds and also our hearts. Overall, we are caregivers. Regardless of where we work, we all experience rough days, tough patients, and trying
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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
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the certified nurse-midwife (CNM) profession is expected to grow as much as 31% from 2014 to 2024—which is unusually fast. As a result, there will be a need for many more CNMs.
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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
