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Minnesota to Expand Mental Health Services

MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing is using a $2.1 million grant to expand mental health services to underserved parts of the state. The nursing school will partner with the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Touchstone Mental Health and Northern Pines Mental Health Center to train students, as well as provide mental health […]

April 10, 2017

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Prosecutors: Fake “Nurse” Treated Patients

SAN FRANCISCO — Prosecutors have charged a man with no medical training of lying his way into a volunteer nursing position at a San Francisco clinic. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that 39-year-old Brian Litz was arraigned March 30 on charges of practicing medicine without a license and identity theft. He has pleaded not guilty. […]

April 5, 2017

School Nurses Try to Curb LGBT Suicides

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers in New Mexico, California and Maryland are working with public school nurses in hopes of curbing suicide rates within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by making school grounds safer. University of New Mexico pediatrics professor Mary Ramos and colleagues at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and the […]

March 29, 2017

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Oregon Bill Would Let Community Colleges Award 4-Year Nursing Degree

SALEM — A house bill seeking to allow community college boards to award applied bachelor degrees in nursing went through its first public hearing on Tuesday. The bill would allow community colleges, such as Treasure Valley Community College, to award the degree to individuals who have previously earned an associate degree in nursing and met […]

March 28, 2017

Nurses Use High-Tech Sleep Pods for Students

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Students in Southern New Mexico are learning that often a short nap can save a day that isn’t going right. Two high schools in the Las Cruces Public Schools district and two in the Gadsden Independent School District are using sleep pods — EnergyPods made by MetroNaps. The high-tech pods, a […]

March 23, 2017

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WVU Offers Tuition Incentives to Nursing Students

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University is offering tuition incentives in hopes of increasing the number of highly trained nurses in the state and beyond. The WVU School of Nursing says it will offer in-state tuition for all students — regardless of residency — to enhance opportunities for nurses through the online Registered Nurse to […]

February 22, 2017

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Nursing Students Get Hands-On Experience

LINCOLN, Neb.— The flesh-like rubber arms and hands splayed out on a table look very real — too real, in some cases — but it’s the artificial blood oozing from a wound that really pulls it all together. That’s a good thing, at least for the future nurses learning the skills they’ll use regularly at […]

February 15, 2017

UMKC Nursing Dean Receives Federal Honor

KANSAS CITY, MO – Ann Cary, dean of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing and Health Studies, has been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The national advisory council — comprised of up to 23 members including students, practicing […]

January 11, 2017

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Digitized Records Create Need for Medical “Scribes”

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Electronic medical records have spawned a new health care profession: medical scribe. Working alongside doctors, scribes enter information into a computer, their fingers furiously typing away so the doctors’ digits don’t have to. “I feel like it benefits me, but it benefits the patients more,” said Dr. Meena Agarwala of St. Luke’s […]

December 7, 2016

N.J. County Equips School Nurses to Use Narcan

TOMS RIVER, N.J. — Ocean County has become the first county in New Jersey to supply all of its high school nurses with Narcan, the drug that is used to reverse opioid overdoses. County prosecutor Joseph Coronato says he made the decision to equip nurses with the life-saving antidote after hearing about a recent overdose […]

December 5, 2016

Idaho System to Hire 100 in 5 Years

TWIN FALLS, Idaho — The St. Luke’s health system plans to hire at least 100 health professionals over the next five years to work in Twin Falls, Jerome and Ketchum. A growing population and a need for specialty treatment are driving the hiring of doctors, physician’s assistants and nurse practitioners, spokeswoman Debbie Kytle told The […]

November 28, 2016

College Gets Grant for Native Americans in Nursing

The Indian Health Service has awarded a grant of more than $300,000 to University of New Mexico College of Nursing to educate more American Indian and Native Alaskan nursing students. The three-year “American Indians Into Nursing” grant brings together the UNM College of Nursing, San Juan College and UNM Center for Native American Health. Read […]

November 16, 2016

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Aims Nursing Class Scores Perfection

The 2016 class from Aims Community College’s nursing program is perfect, having achieved a 100 percent pass rate on a licensure exam, according to an Aims news release. The average national pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examination-RN is 86 percent, meaning Aims is at the top of its jurisdiction and the country, according […]

November 14, 2016

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LSU Offers Grads 1-Year Bachelor’s in Nursing

NEW ORLEANS — Graduates of Houma’s community college can now use those credits to get a bachelor’s of nursing degree in one year at Louisiana State University’s nursing school in New Orleans. LSU Health New Orleans says the agreement will let registered nurses with an associate degree from Fletcher Technical Community College earn a bachelor […]

November 14, 2016

Allen College Addresses Nursing Shortage

WATERLOO — Emily Schuldt was enjoying her nursing career working in the intensive care unit at UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital when one of her former professors approached her about helping teach a clinical course through Allen College. It didn’t take long for Schuldt to catch the teaching bug after the initial experience. “It’s a passion that […]

November 7, 2016

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Advocates: Hospital Won’t Do Rape Exams

EL PASO, Texas —An El Paso nonprofit that helps sexual assault victims says about 15 victims have told them they were turned away while seeking a rape kit exam at a local hospital. The hospital’s officials say they have just been providing victims with the option of going to facilities better equipped to work with […]

November 2, 2016

College Trains “Patient Navigators”

Otero Junior College’s vision is to provide superior educational opportunities and be a valued partner with the communities we serve. The Health Navigator program is a specific example of how it does just that. OJC boasts the state’s first associate degree in health navigation and a potential career pathway that extends from community health worker […]

November 2, 2016

Ontario Nurse Charged in 8 Deaths

TORONTO — A nurse has been charged with the murders of eight elderly people under her care at nursing homes in southwestern Ontario over a seven-year period, police said. Woodstock Police Chief William Renton said Elizabeth Tracey Mae Wettlaufer, 49, was charged with first-degree murder in the killings that took place between 2007 and 2014. […]

October 31, 2016