“Are you crazy?” This was the response—replete with an equally stunned face—I got when telling people that I was thinking of taking a new graduate emergency department nurse residency. “Um, I guess so,” was my pathetic shy response. Inevitably, second […]
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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
Below, I interview Jennifer Randall, a registered nurse (RN) who works at a community health center, about her role as an educator on the infectious disease team. What is your background in nursing? I graduated with my bachelor of science
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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
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
During the economic recession a few years back, the University of Florida (UF) decided to phase out their Jacksonville nursing program, but after recently allocated funding totaling $500,000, the nursing program is starting back up. Despite a number of nearby
