Displaying items by tag: interprofessional

July 24, 2019

NIH grant studying cognitive aging in African Americans

Wheeler developing tailored educational information and activities to encourage healthy behaviors to promote healthy cognitive aging.

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October 19, 2017

McGuinness honored by alma mater

Department chair, professor recognized as "a master teacher of nurses"

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July 29, 2015

Dionne-Odom receives NPCRC Junior Faculty Career Development Award

Award provides for the development of a culturally relevant intervention to help family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer in the rural south

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July 24, 2015

NP students learn eye exam skills through interprofessional partnership with UAB School of Optometry

Nurse Practitioner students learn eye exam skills through interprofessional partnership with UAB School of Optometry

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July 02, 2015

Improving Veterans health, access a School priority

Since 2009, the UAB School has had a formal partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs through what is now called the VA Nursing Academic Partnership to help improve health care for Veterans and their families. Its success has led to the expansion of additional education, research and clinical practice initiatives, all aimed at bettering the lives of America's heroes.

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September 19, 2014

Improving Veteran Care Through Research

Suzie Miltner, an assistant professor in the UAB School of Nursing is passionate about veteran’s health care, and she has a personal understanding of what veterans need. She came to UAB to do a postdoctoral fellowship as a VA National Quality Scholar (VAQS). Today she is researching quality improvement initiatives for America’s veterans.

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March 18, 2013

UAB School of Nursing Receives $1.4M to Craft Practice Model, Expand Care

The UAB School of Nursing has received a three-year, $1.4-million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to develop and implement an innovative interprofessional collaborative health-care practice model that improves quality of care and outcomes for underserved patients with diabetes and other chronic conditions.

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Coronavirus

Nursing students, faculty answer call to serve in hospital to help fight COVID-19

Undergraduate students will serve as patient care technicians, and graduate students and faculty will be part of patient care teams.
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Retired SON professor endures volcano and faces COVID-19 challenges

Ayda Nambayan stays active in healthcare community in the Philippines
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Nu at-Large Chapter makes donations during COVID crisis

School-based chapter of Sigma offers support through PPE, meals
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"Social distancing is a luxury not everyone can afford”

Income, working conditions and health disparities contribute to disproportionate rates of infection, death in minority populations
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Alumna caring for elderly nuns in COVID hotspot Italy

Sister Linda Hill has cared for more than 20 COVID positive patients
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RNFA holds first remote skills intensive

Remote learning modifications include video integration, real-time feedback
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PAHO/WHOCC helping during COVID-19

School sharing resources, collaborating with international partners to provide faculty expertise, course content and teaching tools
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Bessemer Neighborhood Health Center Continues to Serve Patients During COVID Crisis

Instructor Melanie Baucom credits School help, shift to telemedicine for seamless care for underserved patients
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HRTSA Clinic continues care during COVID-19 pandemic

Team continues seeing patients in person and via telehealth, delivering food and vital medications to patients’ doorsteps
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School provides leading edge COVID-19 learning experiences

Faculty harness UAB Medicine COVID-19 clinical knowledge to provide undergraduates best, latest education
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Palliative care on the front lines in Washington

DNP alumnus Darrell Owens discusses role, importance of palliative care during pandemic
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Faculty keep students on track, engaged with at-home simulations

Faculty innovate skills checkoffs, simulations with household items
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Care continues for vulnerable diabetes patients

PATH Clinic continues remote care through telehealth, prescription drop-offs
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Alumna battling COVID in New York City

BSN graduate Alexis Blackmon responds to the call for more help in one of the hardest hit cities
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Supporting at-risk mothers during COVID-19

Nurse Family Partnership continues to provide care, guidance through telehealth and supply deliveries
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TeleCare Unit provides primary care, teaching during COVID-19

Faculty use School's TeleCare Unit to continue primary care clinic with Changed Lives Christian Center and The Foundry Ministries, while providing undergrads needed clinical hours
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Kempf is on county's COVID-19 taskforce

Professor Mirjam-Colette Kempf serving on Jefferson County COVID-19 task force
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Supporting COVID-19's front line
Donations of PPE provide safety, combat shortage for UAB hospital, clinics and police
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School is nimble in COVID-19 response

Innovation, communication keys to success

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