News Release index Posted: 2/23/2010 Residents at the Apostolic Towers senior housing complex swayed on the dance floor February 20, as part of the Valentine-themed “Senior Prom,” hosted by members of the Geriatric Interest Group (GIG), made up of students from the Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health. Over cupcakes, diet drinks, fruit […] Continue reading
News Release Index Posted: 2/23/2010 Residents at the Apostolic Towers senior housing complex swayed on the dance floor February 20, as part of the Valentine-themed “Senior Prom,” hosted by members of the Geriatric Interest Group (GIG), made up of students from the Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health. Over cupcakes, diet drinks, fruit […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 2/22/2010 On February 22, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) associate dean for academic affairs Pamela Jeffries, DNS, RN, FAAN, ANEF, joins nursing leaders from across the country in presenting the Forum on the Future of Nursing: Education in Houston, TX. This forum, the third and final in a national […] Continue reading
News Release Index Posted: 2/22/2010 On February 22, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) associate dean for academic affairs Pamela Jeffries, DNS, RN, FAAN, ANEF, joins nursing leaders from across the country in presenting the Forum on the Future of Nursing: Education in Houston, TX. This forum, the third and final in a national […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 2/17/2010 Two Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) faculty members, assistant professors Sarah “Jodi” Shaefer, PhD, RN, and Mary Terhaar, DNSc, RN have been selected as scholars for the Health Information Technologies Scholars (HITS) project for 2010. The project is sponsored by a five-year, $1.5 million grant provided by the […] Continue reading
News Release Index Posted: 2/17/2010 Two Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) faculty members, assistant professors Sarah “Jodi” Shaefer, PhD, RN, and Mary Terhaar, DNSc, RN have been selected as scholars for the Health Information Technologies Scholars (HITS) project for 2010. The project is sponsored by a five-year, $1.5 million grant provided by the […] Continue reading
News Release Index Posted: 2/3/2010 Veronica Njie-Carr, PhD, APRN, BC, a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, has received a grant to study the experiences and perceptions of intimate partner violence among HIV-positive African-American women and African-American men. The one-year pilot grant award of $15,000 is from the Center for Health […] Continue reading
News Release Index Posted: 2/1/2010 In the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center has been actively assisting Haitian nurses and midwives from afar, gathering nursing education materials and making them available electronically. As co-director of the Collaborating Center, Associate Professor Patricia Abbott, PhD, RN, manages the […] Continue reading
News Release Index Posted: 1/29/2010 Martha N. Hill, PhD, RN, Dean of the School of Nursing and Professor of Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University, has been named an honorary member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society. Alpha Omega Alpha confers honorary membership on physicians and scientists in recognition of […] Continue reading
News Release index | News Archive Posted: 1/28/2010 Bridging a Cultural Healthcare GapLike other new immigrant groups, Korean Americans’ health risks — diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancer — increase after arriving in the U.S. Unfortunately, too many also miss out on needed healthcare services until they are seriously, often chronically ill. Johns Hopkins University […] Continue reading