News Release index Posted: 10/5/2000 Leaders from 22 national nursing organizations representing 463,000 nurses gathered September 10-14 in Baltimore to attend the Nursing Leadership Academy in End-of-Life Care. The Academy was designed to educate, train, and organize a network of nursing leaders prepared to galvanize the profession and transform end-of-life care. The Academy, created by […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 9/13/2000 Today’s Nurse: New Era Leadership Skills is the title of a leadership lecture to be held Wednesday, November 15, 2000 at 3:00 p.m. given by Maryann Fralic, DrPH, RN, FAAN, professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. The talk is the school’s Sixth Annual Doris Armstrong Leadership Forum. Doris […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 7/1/2000 Merck & Co. will offer a full scholarship to the Case Management Academy presented by the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing. The scholarship includes the following: Applicants for scholarship must: The terms of the scholarship are as follows: Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 4/3/2000 The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing graduate program tied for fifth place in the nation, according to a ranking published April 3, 2000 in U.S. News & World Report. The fifth place ranking is up from sixth place in 1998. The magazine ranks nursing graduate programs every two years. […] Continue reading
News Release index | News Archive Posted: 2/1/2000 Cindy Hylton Rushton, DNSc, RN, FAAN, assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, received a $200,000 grant from the Open Society Institute to develop a National Nursing Leadership Institute on End-of-Life Care. The grant aims to bring together nursing leaders from national nursing organizations to […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 9/1/1999 The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing announces the graduate-level Nursing Care and Health Systems Specialist program. The new program aims to provide nurses with multiple career options and prepare them to practice as health systems specialists. The curriculum is based on results of an assessment of the healthcare environment […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 6/1/1999 Stress and surgery may increase the growth of cancerous tumors by suppressing natural killer cell activity, says a Johns Hopkins nurse researcher. Malignancies and viral infection are in part controlled by the immune systems natural killer (NK) cells, a sub-population of white blood cells that seek out and kill certain […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 6/1/1999 Donaldson to Leave Nursing Deanship Sue K. Donaldson, dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing for seven years, has announced she will step down at the end of the academic year to return to research and teaching. “This follows a plan carefully laid out at the time of […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 3/12/1999 Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and other institutions report that nearly 4 in 10 female emergency room patients have been victims of physical or emotional domestic abuse sometime in their lives, and 14 percent have been physically or sexually abused in the past year. Results of their […] Continue reading
News Release index Posted: 2/25/1999 R. Kevin Mallinson, MSN, RN, ACRN, doctoral student at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, was awarded first place among graduate posters by the Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS). The award was given at the SNRS annual conference held February 18-20 in Charleston, SC. The title of Mr. […] Continue reading