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Section: Nursing
Nursing
$1.5M gift Will Fund Nursing Chair
EAST LANSING, Mich. — McLaren Greater Lansing has made a $1.5 million gift to Michigan State University to establish the College of Nursing’s first endowed chair position. The East Lansing school said that the donation to help create the Endowed Chair for Behavioral Mental Health Nursing Education is the second largest gift ever given to […]
October 26, 2016
Nursing
UM Creates Nursing School at Flint Campus
FLINT — The University of Michigan is creating a School of Nursing at its Flint campus, effective Nov. 1. The Flint campus has a department of nursing in the School of Health Professions and Studies. Nursing now will stand on its own. The university says more than 19 percent of students in Flint study nursing […]
October 24, 2016
Nursing
Montana State Gets Grant to Help Nursing Students
A Montana State University program to help Native Americans succeed in nursing has received a grant worth nearly $1 million. MSU’s Caring For Our Own Program, or CO-OP, received a three-year grant from the Indian Health Service worth $332,715 a year. The money will let the program support several additional students per year, up to […]
October 19, 2016
Nursing
Foundation Provides Funds for Nursing Education in Wyoming
The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming (BCBSWY) Caring Foundation has invested in nursing education at the University of Wyoming and the state’s community colleges through the creation of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming Scholars Program, part of the larger initiative, Meeting Wyoming’s Needs Through Nurse Education. The gift, which totals more than […]
October 17, 2016
Nursing
Nursing Strike Ends in Minnesota
A 37-day strike at five Allina Health hospitals ended Tuesday night, but nurses left the picket lines with concerns about the contract they must approve before returning to work. In huddles during the final day of picketing and on social media, nurses debated the offer their negotiators reached during a 17-hour bargaining session arranged by […]
October 13, 2016
Nursing
Plans for Nebraska Nursing College Move Forward
In 2008, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents made a new medical center College of Nursing building in Lincoln its legislative priority. Then a deep recession took hold, and NU shelved the plans for a modern nursing training facility. Nearly a decade later, the program statement has been dusted off and the $20 million […]
September 26, 2016
Nursing
Telehealth Clinic Lets Doctors Make “House Calls” to School
ELWOOD, Ind. — A sick child used to mean a parent taking off work and a child missing school, but kids can now see the doctor without leaving Elwood Intermediate School. When a child is sick at school, he or she will go to the school nurse’s office. If the nurse deems it necessary, the […]
September 19, 2016
Nursing
School Nurse Tends to Student After Shooting
PITTSBURGH — A 17-year-old student was wounded in a shooting across the street from a high school Thursday and was treated by the school nurse until paramedics arrived. Police and emergency crews were called to Perry Traditional Academy, also known as Pittsburgh Perry High School, just before 8 a.m. The principal and staffers were responding […]
September 13, 2016
Nursing
Nursing Scholarship Honors Murdered Nuns
COLUMBUS, Miss. Mississippi University for Women is creating a scholarship to honor two slain nuns who worked as nurse practitioners in one of the poorest parts of the nation. The Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill Graduate Nursing Scholarship will be given to a graduate nursing student who works in an underserved area or […]
September 8, 2016
Nursing
Death Penalty Under Study in Killing of Nuns Who Were Nurses
DURANT, Miss. — A Mississippi prosecutor said she hasn’t decided whether to seek the death penalty for a man charged with killing two nuns who dedicated their lives to helping people in one of the poorest counties in the nation. Relatives and colleagues of Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill have publicly expressed their opposition […]
September 2, 2016
Nursing
Ebola Survivor to Nurse Students: Be Best of the Best
ATLANTA —An American woman treated for the Ebola virus at Emory University Hospital said health care workers continue to learn more about the disease she contracted in 2014 while volunteering in the West African country of Liberia. Nancy Writebol addressed nursing students in Atlanta on August 26, about two years after she arrived at the […]
August 29, 2016
Nursing
Mental Health Nurses Back in Uniforms
A team of mental health nursing staff at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust have opted to start wearing uniforms again more than 10 years after they originally discarded them. The move by Hillingdon Psychiatric Liaison Team will be piloted following a vote and consultation with acute hospital staff and patients. The majority […]
August 22, 2016
Nursing
Nurses and Retirees Lobby to Keep Home Open
TAMPA — About a dozen nurses and the seniors they care for are headed to Tallahassee to try to save a Tampa retirement home under threat of closure. Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration this month issued an order to revoke the license for University Village’s nursing home by Sept. 3 because its owners failed […]
August 22, 2016
Nursing
PhD Nursing Programs Ranked
Everyone knows what nurses do: everyone has encountered a nurse, whether in the primary physician’s office, the emergency room, or the hospital. Nurses provide the hands-on care, meets a patient’s immediate needs, and do the grunt work of the healthcare system. But, outside of the nursing profession itself, very few people think about the other […]
August 17, 2016
Nursing
Could Start-Up Change How Nurses Are Hired?
A startup is hoping that its new website —still in beta — can bust open the world of recruiting and placing nurses. “We want to bring transparency to this space and give power back to the nurses,” said Jason Ayachi, co-founder of RampUp Nursing, a site that went online just a couple of months ago […]
August 16, 2016
Nursing
No Degree? Veteran Nurse Learns She Didn’t Get one
ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. —Tara Jordan said she’s been practicing as a registered nurse since graduating with an associate’s degree and passing the registered nursing exam. The problem is that she never actually got a degree. In 2009, Tri-County Technical College sent the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation a certificate of endorsement for […]
August 16, 2016
Nursing
Local nurses played role in improving standards
Nursing was once considered an unseemly career for a woman in 19th-century Texas. Back then, nursing duties were frequently performed by untrained male attendants. When the Texas Medical Association convened in Waco in 1878, the physicians quickly dismissed the proposal for a professional nursing school for men. The TMA president remarked that “male nurses were […]
August 10, 2016
Nursing
Hospital’s First Born Turns 100
DECATUR, Ala. — With her coiffed white hair and red lipstick perfectly matching her sweater and fingernails, Martha Davidson hardly looks like the trailblazer she is. On August 3, the Decatur woman turned 100, a celebration that marked a milestone for Decatur Morgan Hospital. On that date in 1916, Davidson became the first baby born […]
August 8, 2016
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