News Release index Posted: 3/26/2003 The Helene Fuld Health Trust has granted $1.5 million to The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing to establish and support a new Leadership Fellows Program in Clinical Nursing. The program is designed to augment the school’s nursing curricula by providing students with an opportunity to work with a mentor […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 2/28/2003 Linda C. Pugh, PhD, RNC, associate professor and director of the baccalaureate program at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, received a $2 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research to determine the net cost savings of providing breastfeeding support to low-income mothers. Professional and national health […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 1/2/2003 A new exhibit is on display on the School of Nursing’s first floor. Called “Vashti Bartlett – A Hopkins Nurse on a Global Mission,” the exhibit features the incredible work of a School of Nursing alumna who traveled to distant corners of the world in periods of strife and crisis […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 10/28/2002 The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, in partnership with the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University School of Nursing (NCA&TSU), received a $2.3 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) to create the Center on Health Disparities Research. The effort is one of eight […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 10/7/2002 The first recipients of the Dorothy Evans Lyne Fund for Collaborative Nursing Research were announced this week. The fund, started by a grateful patient and administered by the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing, seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through clinical nursing research. Grants were awarded to two teams […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 10/7/2002 Patients who get follow-up care from a nurse after heart bypass surgery are more likely to control cholesterol and reduce risk of further disease, according to a study from The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. The study’s findings, published in the October issue of the American Heart Journal, “show […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 8/19/2002 Research led by a nurse investigator at Johns Hopkins has found that a pain reliever commonly used to treat serious and painful forms of arthritis may also reduce the growth of malignant tumors after cancer surgery. Indomethacin, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, given to rats after surgery reduced tumor promotion by […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 6/24/2002 Deborah Wells has been appointed Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, effective July 1, 2002. Wells is currently a Senior Director of Development and Associate Campaign Director at Johns Hopkins University, where she supervises the fundraising efforts of the Bioethics Institute, […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 6/13/2002 Nursing students can expect to face many challenges in their education, but it is unlikely anyone foresees an assignment involving eating candy. That’s just what the students in instructor Kate Lears’ Nursing for Community Health course are asked to do. And while most cannot correctly complete the task, they gain […] Continue reading
News Release index | News Archive Posted: 6/11/2002 A Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing study concludes female victims of physical and/or sexual abuse have a significantly higher rate of common health problems, even after the abuse ends, compared to women who have never been abused. In a study of 2,005 well-educated, middle-class, Caucasian and […] Continue reading