News Release index Posted: 7/29/2009 The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) has received a $1.6 million Nurse Support Program (NSP) II grant to increase the number of masters prepared nurses qualified to fill faculty vacancies Maryland schools of nursing. NSP II grants aim to expand the capacity to educate nurses by concentrating on […] Continue reading
Posted: 1/31/2012 Applicants who meet a March 1, 2012 deadline for the Fall 2012 Applied Health Informatics program at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) are now eligible for $10,000 in tuition support. According to Patricia Abbott, PhD, RN, Director of the JHUSON Applied Health Informatics Program, additional monies will provide tuition support for […] Continue reading
Posted: 1/25/2012 People within the Johns Hopkins community have long known that Lillie Shockney is an amazing nurse. Now she’s got the moniker to prove it. Shockney, administrative director of the Johns Hopkins Avon Breast Center since 1997, was selected as this year’s “Amazing Nurse” in the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future national […] Continue reading
Posted: 1/23/2012 Managing Stress: It’s More than Mind over Matter—People respond to a threat consciously with behavior, and automatically with the body’s biological fight-or-flight stress response. The ability to manage both kinds of response can affect long-term health and adjustment. According to Professor Douglas A. Granger, PhD, the capacity to manage stress may help explain […] Continue reading
Posted: 1/12/2012 “Community Outreach and Cardiovascular Health (COACH) Trial: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Nurse Practitioner/Community Health Worker Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction in Urban Community Health Centers,” an article by Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) researchers, was selected as an editor’s pick in a recent issue of the American Heart Association (AHA) journal Circulation: […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 12/29/2011 Applicants are now being sought for the Anne & George L. Bunting Professorship in Clinical Ethics, an endowed professorship created to lead and educate students and faculty in the field of clinical ethics. The professorship, a joint appointment between the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) and the Hopkins […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 12/13/2011 A grant from the Helene Fuld Health Trust, HSBC Bank USA, N.A in New York, NY, will fund over the next five years a leadership program designed to produce 200 new nurses who can make a tangible difference in healthcare quality and safety, particularly among older patients. These students, the […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 12/13/2011 Associate professor Patricia Abbott, PhD, RN, FAAN, Department of Health Systems and Outcome, received a personal invitation by William E. Kennard, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, to the High-Level Workshop on Innovation in Healthcare on November 16 in Brussels, Belgium. The workshop was attended by policy makers, academic and […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 12/9/2011 The life of a graduate nursing student is busy. It is so busy that one might not expect students to think about anything besides getting through their clinicals and classes without collapsing in exhaustion. Yet, for one week this October, four graduate students from the Johns Hopkins University School of […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 12/2/2011 As cold and flu season is upon us, text4baby—a free text messaging program for pregnant and new moms—shared information today from the service’s first-ever interactive educational module, showing how the service can quickly and efficiently gather important data on how moms make choices about taking steps to prevent the flu. […] Continue reading