The looming crisis of a worldwide shortage of nurses has led Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Nursing to expand its student enrollment through a new accelerated second degree entry point for the education of future nurses.
Disparities in the rates of referral and subsequent enrollment in outpatient cardiac rehabilitation can be linked to income and race, according to a study.
A collaborative education effort launched this month by the nursing schools at The Johns Hopkins University and Peking Union Medical College will create the first nursing doctoral-level (PhD) program in China.
The goals of the partnership: To increase the health care information technology competence of nursing graduates and to design new ways of delivering safe and efficient health care utilizing health care information technology.
Johns Hopkins Nursing offers two new week-long education programs: one addresses the need for nursing faculty to educate the nurses of tomorrow and the demand for staff to educate today's practicing nurses; the other prepares nurses to lead interdisciplinary initiatives that will increase patient safety.
Johns Hopkins Nursing Fall 2004 focuses on several issues facing nursing and nursing education today: the changing demographic of nursing students; nurses working past the traditional retirement age; birthing companions; and the Congressional Nurse Reinvestment Act.
Baltimore community patrons Clair Zamoiski Segal and Thomas H. Segal have established a $1 million Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing endowment in honor of Mrs. Segal's mother, Ellen Levi Zamoiski. The Segals also will fund a $30,000 annual Ellen Levi Zamoiski Doctoral Fellowship.
The Center for Collaborative Intervention Research, a national model for interdisciplinary research teams in the development, testing, and dissemination of innovative interventions to improve health outcomes, is the newest Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing initiative to advance knowledge that promotes health and improves health services.
Each year, more than three million women in the U.S. are abused by their intimate partners"“and more than 1,200 are killed by their abusers. The Danger Assessment instrument is available now online to help women at risk learn their level of danger.
Johns Hopkins Nursing Winter 2005 celebrates the rich 115-year history of nursing education and experience at Johns Hopkins with a look at Hopkins nurses yesterday and today. Through their war letters, course curricula, and uniforms, the issue explores both the milestones and changes in Hopkins Nursing.
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing faculty member Marie Nolan, DNSc, will lead a team of Johns Hopkins investigators in a $2 million study to determine how potential kidney donors make their donation decision and how kidney donors recover after the surgery.
Two new graduate options now offered by the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing will prepare nurses for pivotal leadership roles during disasters and mass casualty incidents.
Nominations and applications are now being sought for a unique tenure track, dual faculty appointment in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Medicine.
The pervasive health care disparities now affecting millions of people throughout the United States will be the focus of a special expert-to-expert town hall hosted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (SON), Tuesday, May 3, 2005 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
In honor of Nurses Week 2005 (May 6-12), the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHU SON) is waiving application fees ($75) for the master's and post-master's programs and options.
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing professor Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD RN FAAN, has been named the American Academy of Nursing/Institute of Medicine/American Nurse's Foundation Scholar-in-Residence.
Johns Hopkins Nursing Summer 2005 vividly illustrates the changing nature of nursing and the diversity of opportunity available to today's nurses. Articles and features explore the "Game of Nursing" and the new fields and areas of study in forensic nursing, emergency preparedness and disaster response, and patient safety.
A recently released comprehensive report, "Challenges and Opportunities to Improve Pediatric Palliative Care in Maryland," makes recommendations for improving the care of dying children in Maryland.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing has received a $2.5 million federal research grant"”the largest in the school's history"”to implement a team-based health care delivery system to manage the total cardiovascular health of 500 high-risk patients.
Two well-known philanthropic organizations"”the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and the France-Merrick Foundation"”have made pledges that reaffirm their continuing commitment to the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.
The use of soy protein containing isoflavones"”a phytoestrogen or weak form of naturally occurring estrogen"”can improve atherogenic lipoprotein profiles in postmenopausal women and effectively reduce two strong, independent indicators of coronary heart disease.
Black South Africans, a population greatly at risk for high blood pressure, need comprehensive, multi-level interventions addressing socioeconomic challenges, lifestyle behaviors, and health care delivery approaches to improve high blood pressure treatment, according to a study.
News briefs of murder-suicide research, the business case of nursing, a new Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing undergraduate research honors program, a forensic nursing partnership, and nursing informatics.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) has appointed Helen Scannell Thomas, a certified pediatric nurse practitioner and well-known Baltimore community health nurse, to serve as Director of the Wald Community Nursing Center. Thomas will lead JHUSON faculty and staff efforts to address health disparities by delivering free and reduced cost services to uninsured and underinsured families in East Baltimore.
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing news briefs on Afghanistan midwifery education, cardiovascular research with Koreans, spiritual care by oncology nurses, faculty member named a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow, and emergence of personal health care records.
Five graduate nursing students from the American University in Beirut (AUB) who now are unable to return to their homes in Lebanon have received an extended welcome from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) and the Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Nursing (JHHDON).
Johns Hopkins Nursing Summer 2006 explores the depth and diversity of nursing research conducted at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON). Features and articles examine new directions in the faculty's scholarly work, multi-disciplinary team approaches, and the mentoring of rising nurse researchers.
More than two thirds of students in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Traditional Class of 2008 already hold a bachelor's degree and many have previously pursued other careers before choosing nursing. One hundred and seven (70%) of the 153 nursing students entering this fall hold undergraduate degrees; nine have graduate degrees.
This month's news and briefs from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing feature research on domestic violence in the military, news of the nation's first NCIS nurse, and articles on spiritual well-being and treatment for breast cancer, evidence-based nursing practice, quality patient care, and nursing informatics.
The Helene Fuld Health Trust has granted the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing $1.5 million to continue the successful Leadership Fellows Program. The unique undergraduate program annually matches 40 students with mentors from the hospital setting and creates opportunities for the students to solve a patient-care quality or safety problem.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, will launch the Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery Community of Practice on September 11, 2006. The online community offers nurses and midwives throughout the world a forum for sharing ideas, best practices, and new knowledge.
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing monthly news and research briefs feature the nurse's role in organ donations, identifying and reducing lead contamination in homes, school-based intimate partner violence prevention and intervention programs, health care informatics, and nursing leadership.
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing researcher Miyong Kim, RN, PhD, has received two grants totaling $4 million to address and surmount barriers that can limit high blood pressure and diabetes treatments for Korean American populations.
The October "Johns Hopkins University Nursing News and Research Briefs" highlights articles and presentations by School of Nursing faculty on psychological adjustment of children with chronic conditions, a new model for geriatric care, the moral distress nurses may encounter, and addressing health care disparities.
A Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing soy protein study has yielded new findings pertaining to cholesterol reduction, metabolic syndrome, and recruitment for clinical trials. The results are published this month in Menopause and Ethnicity and Disease and were presented today at the American Heart Association 2006 Scientific Sessions.
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing monthly news and research briefs feature cautions for first responders at methamphetamine labs, strategies for bringing research into nursing practice, the impact of information technology on patient safety, and the doula experience in childbirth.
Johns Hopkins Nursing Fall/Winter 2006 investigates what it means to be a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Features and articles examine the "brand" of Hopkins Nursing, Hopkins nurses as team players, and the school's outreach to nurses in crises.
This month's news from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing includes results of a study on the use of complementary and alternative medicine among high risk asthma patients; research into the physical and economic impact of post-operative pain; and a variety of new research presentations by faculty and students.
Faculty and researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) are leading studies aimed at improving cardiovascular health, assessing the health of communities, and bringing the heart and science of nursing practice to at-risk populations.
Moral distress, spirituality, domestic violence, and health care disparities are among the issues nurse researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) are exploring in efforts to care for and heal the wounded lives of a wide variety of audiences.
In this month's news, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing faculty and researchers are finding techniques to reduce job turnover among nurses, determining when palliative care comes too late, and exploring public awareness campaigns to reduce domestic violence.
February news from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing includes results of blood pressure studies among young urban African Americans, observations on health care communications between providers and with patients, new approaches for electronic health records, and designs for hospital medications systems aimed at patient safety.
This month's Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing research briefs and nursing news features nurse-led community health care partnerships, a new technique for prenatal DNA testing, neonatal transport, collaboration in evidence-based nursing, spiritual health care, personal electronic health records, and more.
April news from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing focuses on accomplishments of faculty and students and features briefs on research into emergency department screening for intimate partner/domestic violence, health promotion recruitment of Korean Americans, and more.
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.
Team interventions to reduce nurse stress and burnout, successful patient-centered approaches in health care consultation, a community-based participatory research journal, and a "Nightingale" initiative to improve health worldwide are the features of the May Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing news briefs.
An innovative and highly successful worldwide online community of practice"”The Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery Electronic Community of Practice"”has received funding that will broaden and enhance efforts to deliver connectivity and best practices to nurses and midwives worldwide.
Nursing students go "Back-to-School" to reach underserved children and Hopkins delivers options in nursing education.
The Johns Hopkins University Nursing News and Research Briefs summer issue offers reports on intimate partner homicide risk factors and related forensic nursing studies on injury patterns; recruitment for research studies; research into cancer and cardiac patient fatigue; and treatment compliance following coronary artery bypass.
Johns Hopkins Nursing Summer 2007 offers a look inside the innovative programs and collaborative learning experiences that can enhance the careers of current and future nurses.
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