News Release index Posted: 5/13/2009 A Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) instructor and a stellar group of JHUSON students have impressed members of the National Student Nurses Association (NSNA) with their passion for nursing. At the NSNA annual convention April 15-19 in Nashville, TN, instructor Rosemary Mortimer, MEd, MSN, RN, received the 2009 […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 5/8/2009 An undergraduate student group from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) travels to Haiti this month to provide health education, outreach, screening, and other care to children and adults in this impoverished nation. The trip is part of their clinical education, and students work with the Haitian Health […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 5/4/2009 The SON kicks off National Nurses Week on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 with Dean Martha N. Hill’s annual Spring All School Meeting and Awards Presentation. Nurses Week, recognized by the American Nurses Association as May 6-12th each year, celebrates the diverse ways in which nurses are working to improve health […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 4/27/2009 Ready to Fly: Evaluating Health Disparities in the U.S. Air ForceAccess to affordable health care accounts for some of the racial and ethnic health disparities among the general U.S. population. But does access to free health care by military women and men eliminate disparities? When it comes to the Air […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 4/23/2009 Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Model and Guidelines was one of the top 10 best selling books from Nursing Knowledge International for 2008. Authors include associate professor and master’s and doctor of nursing practice program director Kathleen M. White, PhD, RN, CEA-Bc, FAAN, and Johns Hopkins Hospital nurses Sandra L. […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 4/23/2009 Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing intimate partner violence researchers Nancy Glass, MPH, RN, and Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN, have been tapped by local media to give expert commentary on recent Baltimore-area murder-suicides. Glass, an Associate Professor, was a guest on the Marc Steiner Show on Tuesday April 21, […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 4/22/2009 Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing professor Phyllis Sharps, PhD, RN, FAAN, chair of the Department of Community Public Health, has been named to the Institute of Medicine committee to study “Qualifications of Professionals Providing Mental Health Counseling Services under TRICARE”. The committee members will make recommendations for permitting licensed […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 4/20/2009 Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) assistant professor Jennifer Wenzel, PhD, RN, CCM has been awarded a $729,000 Mentored Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society to help rural African American elders obtain quality care for cancer. “Due to existing health disparities related to age, gender, and place […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 4/17/2009 Nurse researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) are helping to make cancer a word, not a sentence, for over 1.4 million Americans of every age, race, ethnicity, and income diagnosed with some form of cancer each year. Their innovative studies are examining cancer-related disparities in diagnosis […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 4/16/2009 Mary Woolley, president of Research!America, has been selected as the graduation speaker at the 2009 Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) Diploma and Awards Ceremony on May 21, 2009. Woolley is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement […] Continue reading