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4 WAYS TO STRENGTHEN NURSING LEADERSHIP

Oct 05, 2020

Nurse leaders Joanne Disch and Mary Beth Kingston share insights about how to overcome challenges and continue to push nurse leadership forward as a valuable voice in the healthcare industry. Nurse leaders are no strangers to overcoming challenges. Drawing from their experiences, Joanne Disch, PhD, RN, FAAN, board chair for Advocate Aurora Health; and Mary Beth Kingston, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, executive vice president and...

How medical students are innovating during COVID-19

Sep 21, 2020

The pandemic has been an all-hands-on-deck situation for health care. That has meant channeling the brainpower and energy of those who are just starting their careers in medicine: medical students. Medical students have contributed in the clinical realm, through volunteer work and through embracing challenges in the digital health realm. That has been evident in the work done by Sling Health , an innovation incubator led by medical...

Despite pandemic and downpour, Maine nursing students continue centuries-old ceremony

Aug 24, 2020

GORHAM, Maine — The coronavirus pandemic shut down in-person learning last spring, but 40 students in the University of Southern Maine’s accelerated nursing program still received their diplomas on Friday. They picked up their degrees — and were “pinned” — in a drive-thru ceremony on campus, in front of the Costello Sports Complex. The tradition of conferring pins to nursing graduates goes back 150...

10 Nursing Master's Programs With Low Admit Rates

Aug 20, 2020

he U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College , The Short List: Grad School and The Short List: Online Programs to find data that matters to you in...

Why aren’t high-level nurses in every school now?

Aug 14, 2020

Two state legislators want to force Virginia’s K-12 public schools to hire more registered nurses – especially now during a pandemic that’s ravaging people across the United States. And here’s all I could think: You mean, we don’t already have RNs in in every school? What kind of nonsensical, sanctioned penny-pinching is this? The Chesley Trio has long since graduated from high school, so I wasn’t...

UM-Flint nurse practitioner program partners with counseling services to support students

Aug 11, 2020

The University of Michigan-Flint Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program is partnering with the University’s Counseling and Psychological Services to offer supportive counseling to residents in the program. The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program is a graduate-level course of study. Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners assess, diagnose, and treat patients with mental...

Telehealth class added to nurse practitioner training this summer

Jul 29, 2020

Nurse practitioner students at the Washington State University College of Nursing received special training this summer in seeing patients via telehealth. The use of telehealth has skyrocketed during the pandemic. As with many pandemic-driven technology changes, it’s expected that telehealth will continue to be a larger part of clinical care in the future. WSU was already developing telehealth education for Doctor...

School of Nursing prepares students to serve victims of child abuse

Jul 20, 2020

According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, 677,529 children were substantiated victims of abuse or maltreatment in the United States in the 2018 fiscal year; 71,140 of these cases were reported by healthcare professionals, who are considered mandatory reporters. Pandemic-related closures of schools and businesses mean many mandatory reporters, including teachers, day-care workers and coaches, are no longer...

College: Interest in Nursing Profession Going Strong Despite COVID-19

Jul 16, 2020

The pandemic has slowed down many facets of our lives, but one thing that remains untouched is the number of nursing program applicants to Houston Community College’s Coleman College for Health Sciences in the heart of the Texas Medical Center. There have been three applicants for every available slot for the past three years, said Coleman College President Dr. Philip Nicotera. Even as COVID-19 cases rise, he said, the...

Despite changes in heath care, compassion, strength, dedication of nurses is ever-present (Letters)

Jul 08, 2020

It could not be more timely that the World Health Organization designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and Midwives on the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth . Nurses have been and will continue to be the frontline in the pandemic providing vital services to patients, families, and communities. Florence Nightingale was a English social reformer, statistician, and founder of...

Archer City ISD, Vernon College partner to offer CNA program for high school students

Jun 19, 2020

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (TNN) - Archer City High School students now have the chance to start college early by graduating high school with two medical certificates: one as a certified nursing assistant, and the other as a clinical medical assistant. Justin Sanders, the continuing education coordinator at Vernon College for Allied Health, said he was noticing more and more high school students from Archer City traveling to...

Scituate nursing students go from college to the COVID-19 frontline

Jun 17, 2020

By Ruth Thompson rthompson@wickedlocal.com Lily Reid, left, and Katey Ferguson had just graduated from nursing school when they were hired to work with COVID-19 patients at the Boston Hope Medical Center, a 1,000-bed field hospital set up at the Expo Center in Boston The ink was barely dry on their college diplomas when Lily Reid and Kathryn “Katey” Ferguson were called to action in the face...

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