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 […]
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
A new study led by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing found that patient satisfaction with care in hospitals declines when patients believe there are not enough nurses on wards. The study findings were based on the
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Prior to starting my first nursing job, I hadn’t heard of a nursing portfolio. As far as I was concerned, all the important documents representing my nursing career were a mumbo jumbo pile somewhere in between my nursing school books
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Lawmakers in the state of Indiana have proposed a new bill that would offer grants to nursing faculty to help repay part of their college loans in order to help ease a shortage of nurses across the state. Registered nurses
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If you ask any nurse what their favorite thing is about wearing scrubs (besides the fact that they are basically PJs), they will most likely say “pockets!” Scrub pockets hold all of the essential tools that a nurse needs to
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Barbara and Donald Jonas, founders of The Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, recently unveiled a new vision to support the country’s most vulnerable citizens through Jonas Philanthropies. Building on more than a decade of high-impact investments in nursing
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Two fall 2017 graduates of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) College of Nursing, Kate Bradley and Kristen Bertrand, have both been accepted into the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nurse Residency Program. They will work in highly specialized health
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Arizona State University (ASU) recently named Judith Karshmer the new dean of the College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Karshmer is the former dean of the School of Nursing and Health Professions at the University of San Francisco (USF) and
The Hawaii State Center for Nursing (HSCN) recently released the 2017 Nursing Workforce Report announcing that the number of advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) in the state has doubled since 2005. APRNs are registered nurses with graduate education, specialized certifications,
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