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Sep 16, 2011
News Release index Posted: 9/16/2011 Peace Corps director Aaron S. Williams will discuss the future of international public health initiatives as part of the Corps 50th anniversary celebration at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health on September 20. “This celebration affords us a unique opportunity to reflect on half a century of volunteerism […] Continue reading
Sep 13, 2011
News Release index Posted: 9/13/2011 Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) faculty and students begin another academic year with a host of awards and achievements that recognize their commitment to research and practice. Doctoral student Rachel Klimmek received the JHUSON 2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for “applying creative approaches to helping students learn the […] Continue reading
Sep 9, 2011
News Release index Posted: 9/9/2011 Clearing the Air for Kids with Asthma—Smoking is off limits in many public places, but it isn’t prohibited in private spaces where children live, play, and sleep.  While smoking rates are down, as many as two-thirds of inner-city children with asthma live in a household with at least one smoker, […] Continue reading
Sep 1, 2011
News Release index Posted: 9/1/2011 Through a $325,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Nurse Faculty Scholars Program Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing assistant professor Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, CRNP, will continue her study of older, low-income senior citizens living on their own in Baltimore City.  Szanton will intervene with 60 households […] Continue reading
Aug 29, 2011
News Release index Posted: 8/29/2011 The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is adding a couple of branches to its virtual family tree this fall as it happily welcomes SimNewB and Sim Man 3G to its simulation manikin family. “The use of simulation in nursing education is increasing and Hopkins is at the forefront of […] Continue reading
Aug 25, 2011
News Release index Posted: 8/25/2011 From nurse education to bedside nursing, nursing is experiencing an electronic makeover. Eighty seven percent of nursing schools now use high-fidelity mannequins to bring various levels of simulation to their students. Prescriber orders, previously written on paper, are now entered into a comprehensive electronic ordering system.  Three articles in the […] Continue reading
Aug 23, 2011
News Release index Posted: 8/23/2011 Pamela Jeffries, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON), has been named one of just 21 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Executive Nurse Fellows for 2011. Jeffries, DNS, RN, FAAN,  joins a select group of nurse leaders from across the country chosen to […] Continue reading
Aug 16, 2011
News Release index Posted: 8/16/2011 Awards, grants, and publications show the continuing success this summer of faculty and students at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON). Associate professor Patricia Abbott, PhD, RN, BC, FACMI, FAAN, and four researchers from the University of Alabama, Columbia University, Oregon Health and Science University, and Duke University, were […] Continue reading
Aug 10, 2011
News Release index Posted: 8/10/2011 Today’s primary care physicians in the U.S. are too few in number to meet the healthcare needs of a burgeoning population; healthcare reform will only amplify the problem.  That’s where nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and other advanced practice nurses enter the picture. But do these master’s-trained, board-certified nurses have the […] Continue reading
Aug 9, 2011
News Release index Posted: 8/9/2011 There’s no way Kirsten Blomberg could have been completely prepared for what she encountered when she flew to Uganda to gain hands-on experience at Mulago Hospital as a Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) student. And that’s precisely the idea. Blomberg was shocked at the conditions and practices of […] Continue reading