News Release index Posted: 5/7/2007 Team Interventions Can Play Important Role in Alleviating Nursing Burden, Stress and BurnoutA nursing practice development project described in Burdensome Situations in Everyday Nursing, in the current issue of Nursing Administration Quarterly, illustrates how burdenthe psychosocial and physical consequences of providing direct carecan induce stress and, potentially, burnout among nursing […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 4/17/2007 The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) family of faculty, staff, and students join JHU President William Brody in sending condolences to Virginia Tech and will “hold Virginia Tech and its people in our hearts.” According to Sandra Angell, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, “Virginia Tech is one of our […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 4/11/2007 Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing faculty member Lori Edwards, MPH, BC, APRN, RN has been named the 2007 Nurse Hero by The Daily Record for her leadership in the field of community health. Edwards, who is a member of the Community Public Health Department, was honored for her work […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 4/6/2007 Johns Hopkins Nursing Spring 2007 explores the wide variety of complementary and alternative therapies used by Hopkins nurses and outlines how the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is “building opportunities” for its faculty, students, and staff.http://www.son.jhmi.edu/jhnmagazine/spring2007/ Nursing the Whole PatientAttending to the patient as a whole person is not […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 4/6/2007 Emergency Department Computer-Based Screening Reveals Undetected Intimate Partner Violence-According to a study published this month in Annals of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) nurse researcher Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN and colleagues have determined that a computer-based health survey can lead to significantly higher intimate partner […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 3/16/2007 Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing associate professor Marguerite Littleton-Kearney, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been awarded a five-year $1.25 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue studying how hormone therapy could potentially reduce the severity of stroke. Her research team will give oral hormone replacement therapy […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 3/15/2007 Dear friends of Hopkins nursing, We are saddened to have received the news that Anne “Nan” M. Pinkard, our long-time friend and benefactor of the School of Nursing, died on Saturday, March 3rd at the age of 83. Nan was a trustee of the university for nearly twenty years and had held the […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 3/1/2007 Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Associate Professor Nancy Glass, PhD, MPH, RN, is one of three newly appointed associate directors of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health. Center Director Thomas Quinn, MD named one Associate Director from each of the Johns Hopkins University’s schools of Public Health, Medicine […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 2/22/2007 The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) has named the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing (IJHN) an Approved Provider for Nurse Practitioner (NP) continuing education. As an Approved Provider, IJHN now will provide targeted continuing education for NPs. According to IJHN Executive Director Jane Shivnan, MScN, RN, AOCN, “This new […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 2/15/2007 In an ongoing strategic initiative, the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) has structured SON areas of excellence as academic departments and named three faculty members as department chairs. JHUSON Dean Martha N. Hill, PhD, RN, FAAN, announced the names of those selected at faculty and staff meetings held on […] Continue reading