| University Of Nevada Las Vegas Makes History By Awarding Nevada's First Ph.D. Degrees In Nursing When Lara Carver and Anne Diaz walked across the Thomas & Mack Center stage during UNLV's Spring Commencement activities on May 17, they earned more than their degrees - they made Nevada history as the state's first nursing Ph.D. graduates. With nursing school applications surging nationally, qualified students are being relegated to waiting lists or turned away due to a shortage of Ph.D. prepared nurse educators. UNLV's School of Nursing, which launched Nevada's first Ph.D. medicalnewstoday.com |
Winners Of The Nursing Times Top National Award, UK Lead cancer nurse Stephen Rowley and clinical nurse specialist Simon Clare have won a top national award for trailblazing measures to reduce the risk of infection across the NHS. The Nursing Times announced the winners from a shortlist of contenders from around the UK. The ceremony - attended by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown - was held at The Park Lane Hotel last week. medicalnewstoday.com |
Nurse Leaders Selected For Prestigious National Fellowship To Improve Health Care A national fellowship program focused on expanding the role of nurses to lead change in the U.S. health care system has named its 2009 cohort of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation® (RWJF) Executive Nurse Fellows. Twenty nurses, selected from among the top nursing leaders nationwide, will join more than 200 nurse leaders who have participated in the program since 1998. medicalnewstoday.com |
Wake Forest Baptist Graduates First ED Academy Class Two years ago when the Emergency Department at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center had 25 open nursing positions and no applicants, officials knew something had to be done. Thus, the ED Academy was born. "We decided we needed to start training our own ED nurses in order to retain them," said Michelle Collins, R.N., unit manager... mnt.to |
RCN Wales Celebrates Naming Of Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board The RCN in Wales today celebrates the life and work of Betsi Cadwaladr at the Biennial Betsi Cadwaladr Lecture and reception, this year held in St Asaph. Julie Morgan (former MP for Cardiff North), a well regarded campaigner on Social Justice will present the lecture with the theme of her life as a campaigner... mnt.to |