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IHS Awards $700K Contract to Expert on Care

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Indian Health Service has awarded a one-year, $700,000 contract to an independent expert to help federal government-operated medical facilities improve patient care and safety. The IHS says the contract with the Joint Commission for Accreditation Services will help test the readiness of IHS hospitals for compliance surveys conducted by the […]

August 1, 2016

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Maine University Gets $900K to Boost Health Workforce

BIDDEFORD, Maine —The federal Health Resources and Services Administration is giving nearly $900,000 to University of New England to help the school grow the state’s health care workforce. The Biddeford university is getting three grants, the largest of which is for primary care training and enhancement. The other grants are for nurse education and a […]

August 1, 2016

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Nurse Shares Rape Facts with Team

WACO, Texas — A woman who said she was raped by two Oregon State football players and two other men in 1998 shared her story with the Baylor football team. Brenda Tracy’s talk with the Bears came two months after a 13-page report said Baylor failed to properly handle accusations of sexual assault, including some […]

July 28, 2016

Ohio Institutions Get $4.8M for Training

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Eighteen universities, medical schools and hospitals in Ohio have been awarded almost $4.8 million in federal funds as part of an effort to boost access to primary care. The workforce grants were recently announced by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration.Agency officials say the money will help fund education and training […]

July 26, 2016

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Nevada Bomber Had Lost Nursing License

LAS VEGAS — A former nurse who authorities say killed himself shortly before exploding two powerful bombs targeting his former boss in a rural Nevada town had previously been investigated for unaccounted morphine at the hospital where he worked, state documents indicate. The state said it investigated Glenn Franklin Jones for two incidents in 2015 […]

July 21, 2016

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Gift to College Includes Memoir of Civil War Nurse

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. Confederate currency, bone dice and a memoir from a nurse who also was a Union spy are among a 3,000-piece Civil War collection that the University of St. Mary in Leavenworth is adding to its library. The Bobby D. Lawrence collection was a gift from the Lawrence family of Leavenworth, The Kansas City […]

July 21, 2016

Hawaii Nurses Can Approve Medical Marijuana

HONOLULU — Hawaii patients have more options to gain access to medical marijuana now that nurses can certify people for use of the drug, a change advocates say was needed because there’s a shortage of doctors willing to do the certifications. Gov. David Ige signed a bill July 11 updating the state’s medical marijuana dispensary […]

July 19, 2016

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UMass Gets Nursing Grant for Addiction, Mental Health

AMHERST, Mass. —— The University of Massachusetts-Amherst nursing school has received a nearly $900,000 federal grant to help student nurses recognize and help patients suffering from substance abuse and mental illness. The program is called SBIRT, which stands for screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment. It’s an approach for delivering early intervention and treatment […]

July 19, 2016

Nursing School in Indiana Gets $2 Million

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The University of Southern Indiana’s nursing school is getting more than $2 million in federal grants to improve health care in underserved areas. The Evansville Courier & Press reports that the school’s Nursing and Health Professions Dean Ann White says the money comes from the federal health Resources and Services Administration. Of […]

July 12, 2016

WVU Gets $1.2 Million to Train Rural Nurses

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University School of Nursing is using a $1.2 million federal grant to train advance practice nursing students. The university says the three-year grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration will be used to implement the “Improving Nursing Scholarship, Practice, Innovation, Research and Education to Care for WV,” or INSPIRE […]

June 27, 2016

Nursing, Health Care in Recovery Mode in Haiti

In the early 2000s, Hilda Alcindor had already had a decades-long career as a nurse and teacher. Her two daughters were grown and making their way in the world. Alcindor was living in Miami, where she worked at Mt. Sinai Medical Center and taught at North Miami High School. She was beginning to have the […]

May 11, 2016

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Nursing Faculty Emphasize Culturally Competent Health Care

With today’s nurses working in a rapidly changing health care landscape, emerging faculty educate their nursing students about issues that impact patient care and bring health care to underserved communities. One of Dr. Kyeongra Yang’s goals in the community health courses she teaches is to guide her students to be more culturally competent in providing […]

May 11, 2016

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Nurses Union Names “Systemic Racism” as a Health Threat

Linking racism to issues of public health, National Nurses United has issued a statement “urging all presidential candidates to address the pervasive problems of racial and economic justice that have so stained our nation.” NNU is the largest union of registered nurses in the country with 185,000 members. In the statement issued Thursday (July 23), […]

July 27, 2015

Arhin Resuscitates Fayetteville State Nursing Program

When Afua O. Arhin arrived at Fayetteville State University (FSU) to take over the nursing program in the fall of 2010, the program had been suspended due to low pass rates on the national nursing licensure exam. But instead of viewing the problems at the beleaguered nursing program as a liability, Arhin viewed them as […]

July 1, 2015

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