Through an international partnership, students in the Birth Companions program at Johns Hopkins Nursing lend a voice, support, and empathy to pregnant refugees in America.
$1.7M NIH collaborative grant backs researchers' work on web-based WeCare, which will help caregivers better understand, assess, and treat behavioral changes in those with dementia.
Pumping up heart health messages among the underserved; male abusers harm own work status too; tools for handling dementia; nursing students ready to nurse; deadly HIV-TB treatment puzzle; and more.
Wherever health disparities put humanity in danger you'll find a Hopkins Nurse. Meet the heroes who are solving a world of health care problems and training the next generation to follow in their footsteps.
A few steps, like walking, can ease cancer symptoms; coping with chemo; calm the caregiver, improve the care; HIV in the Philippines; and the geriatric nurse shortage.
Johns Hopkins Nursing study of older patients finds the desperate search for "normalcy" pitted against a helper's need to protect, a conflict that can lengthen the process.
While they weren’t battling teenage drama or fretting about who would be named queen, students in the Geriatric Interest Group and residents from the local senior housing complex, Apostolic Towers, had a chance to be young again as they gathered together for a night of eating and dancing, much like the senior proms they remember from high school.
Driving force behind Chicago Parent Program sees it added to National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. And she's not stopping there.
Does your neighborhood really define health? Most of us make a choice between suburbs, countryside, or city and settle down. But others, particularly those living in poverty, don’t always get to make that choice—the choice that could actually determine our quality and length of life. So how does this choice affect our health? Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing PhD Candidate Laura Samuel is finding out.
Johns Hopkins Nursing doctoral student looks for nutrition and weight-loss model that would work for low-income patients as well as health care providers.
Aggressive, hard-to-manage children whose misbehavior exhausts their parents—a concern faced today by too many caregivers and child health professionals—is the topic for a new series of professional training workshops offered by the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, March 11-12, 2013.
As a profession comprised of only about 5.5% African Americans, nursing isn’t even half way to equaling the United States population at 13.1% African Americans. Through a new grant, “Enhancing the Diversity of the Nursing Profession: Assessing the Mentoring Needs of African American Nursing Students,” the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) and the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) are examining ways to do just that.
Thanks to a $50,000 Hartford Grant, the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) will give four junior faculty that start with a summer gerontological research residency and mentorship program.
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) student Leeann Wilbur sat devastated as she watched the television coverage of the ripping tides pushed by Hurricane Sandy roll through and destroy her New Jersey hometown.
Johns Hopkins Nursing researchers focus on MRSA, motherhood, hospital stress, intimate partner violence, and more in the November-December 2012 research news brief.
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing student Jennie Flanagan focused on the target, a $100,000 scholarship challenge, and figured she’d worry about the details (like learning how to throw a football) later.
For children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rabbits are more than furry pets. They are symbol of resilience as the basis of a microfinance program aimed at improving youth health and social outcomes.
More than one-quarter of adults in the U.S. suffer from sleep disturbances known to contribute to life-threatening illnesses, depression, chronic pain, and fatigue. The JHU Center for Sleep-Related Symptom Science is being established to break the cycles of sleeplessness and suffering.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) is ranked No. 1 among schools of nursing for total funding received from the National Institutes of Health.
Marine Corps Sergeant Emily Thompson Schelberg has been selected by the National Football League as the 2012 NFL-Tillman Military Scholar for her leadership and service to the medical profession.
Hopkins Researcher Douglas Granger sees studying zoo animals as a perfect opportunity to continue his groundbreaking research on how saliva can signal stress, health risks, and illness in the human body, and apply this research to endangered species as well.
Johns Hopkins Nursing researchers focus on global issues including tuberculosis, sexual violence, folic acid, HIV, social roles, and more in the October 2012 global research news brief.
Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, A Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing researcher recently advised on a newly released domestic violence smart phone app.
Two Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing researchers investigated the affects of type 2 diabetes on married Korean women with multiple social roles.
In the October2012 research news brief, Johns Hopkins Nursing researchers focus on depression, cancer, healthcare disparities, and more among African-American and other underserved populations.
A formerly incarcerated mother raising a child in a prison nursery program and a technological aid for for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are examined with a focus on mental stress.
A Johns Hopkins PhD student is attempting to differentiate child abuse from physcial discipline through an examination of Chinese-American mothers and pediatric nurses.
Johns Hopkins Nursing researchers focus on positive parenting, heart failure care, asthma care, salivary stress tests for the military, and more in the August 2012 research news brief.