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October 02, 2019

Oncology, palliative care experts lead

MSN subspecialty faculty bring experience, knowledge to program

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September 24, 2019

Alumni making a difference

Oncology, palliative care pioneers support expansion of care

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December 20, 2018

Turkman receives NPCRC grant

With an NPCRC grant, assistant professor to create a culturally-adapted palliative care program.

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October 20, 2017

Yarbro receives AAN's highest honor

Honorary alumna cited by American Academy of Nursing for contributions to profession, cancer care

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October 19, 2017

Two earn ACS doctoral degree support

PhD students Cherven, Vo each receive $30,000 ACS Cancer Nursing scholarships

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September 12, 2017

Excellence in oncology nursing

Three students receive ONS Foundation scholarships to transform cancer care

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August 25, 2017

Three-time graduate selected NIH Future Research Leader

Nolan tapped among applicant pool of more than 170 scientists

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June 28, 2017

Shining example of oncology nursing

Edwards named Nurse Practitioner of the Year by the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation

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June 08, 2017

Two-time graduate publishes third book

Alumnus Campbell becomes author after surviving bladder cancer

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April 14, 2017

Landier makes advancing pediatric oncology nursing her life's work

Associate professor serves as Nursing Discipline chair of international Children's Oncology Group

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February 03, 2017

American Cancer Society honors Walker

One of six health care professionals given Lane W. Adams Quality of Life Award

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June 03, 2016

Post-doc receives five-year, $935,000 K-99/R00 from NINR

Dionne-Odom developing health-coaching program for caregivers of persons with advanced cancer

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June 03, 2016

PhD student Bail receives coveted ACS award

Goal of research project is to guide development of future cognitive interventions for breast cancer survivors

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November 13, 2015

PhD student awarded Komen Outstanding Young Investigator Award

Selection based upon activism, scholarly research and commitment to community outreach

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November 04, 2015

Walker president-elect of oncology nursing foundation

Has been Board of Trustee member since 2013

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October 23, 2015

School, major health-care systems focus on improving breast cancer survivor awareness

School teams with local health systems for unique Breast Cancer Survivorship Rehabilitation Initiative

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October 23, 2015

Two PhD Students Selected for Prestigious Award

The two are among 46 nurses around the country to receive a prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholars program award this year

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October 16, 2015

Marie Bakitas wins 2015 FNINR Path-Paver Award

Internationally known as an innovative pioneer, leader and scientist for high-impact research in pain management and palliative care

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September 24, 2015

Three PhD students awarded Komen training grants

Scholars receive financial, educational support to pursue training in cancer disparities research, mentoring from preeminent researchers including Karen Meneses

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August 14, 2015

School awarded prestigious Komen traineeship

Provides pre-doctoral scholars with financial support and career development skills building in breast cancer survivorship

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August 06, 2015

New online resources for Alabama young breast cancer survivors

Site provides information and resources for women under 45, including fertility decisions, family, financial and career implications.

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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 09, 2015

PhD student receives prestigious American Cancer Society scholarship

The award provides Timiya Nolan with support as she enters the dissertation phase of her studies

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May 13, 2015

Alumna Courtney Sullivan receives APHON scholarship to attend 2015 Nurse in Washington Internship

Sullivan, a graduate of the MSN program, is the recipient of one of only two scholarships given by the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses to attend the prestigious conference

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April 15, 2015

Honors students partner with YBCSN, Think Well for preceptorship

Three fifth semester honors students use undergraduate research experience to help empower Latina women about breast cancer, culturally sensitive health education

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March 27, 2015

School adds faculty, graduate program leaders

Growth in students and research brings new senior faculty and new graduate program leaders, keys in fulfilling strategic priorities

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February 27, 2015

April 18, School hosting YBCSN Workshop

Breast cancer risk and genetics, families, relationships are topics at the third Young Breast Cancer Survivors Network workshop in Birmingham

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October 06, 2014

PhD candidate Johnson receives travel grant

PhD candidate Ann H. Johnson has received a $1000 Ireland Research Travel Award for her dissertation

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September 30, 2014

Cancer resources at your fingertips

It has not taken Assistant Professor Deborah Walker, DNP, CRNP, AOCN, long to prepare her recently launched cancer resources smart phone app to go beyond Birmingham or cancer.

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September 24, 2014

Meneses named inaugural FNINR Ambassador

Meneses will promote awareness of FNINR, research priorities

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September 19, 2014

YBCSN event teaches the whole family coping strategies

Saturday, April 5, 2014 young breast cancer survivors, their spouses, and children gathered at the UAB School of Nursing to attend the second annual Young Breast Cancer Survivors Network (YBCSN) Workshop. The workshop was specially designed to help improve the quality of life for young breast cancer survivors and their loved ones through education, personal support and networking.

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September 19, 2014

Meneses Receives Grant for Cancer Survivorship Project

A two-year, $150,000 grant from the Women's Breast Health Fund will help improve the quality of life for young breast-cancer survivors and their loved ones through education, personal support, distance learning and networking.

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October 03, 2013

UAB's Meneses named to CDC Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young Women

International leader in breast cancer survivorship research

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September 15, 2013

Bakitas receives grant to study palliative care for vets, minorities, rural cancer patients

UAB School of Nursing Professor Marie Bakitas has received a four-year, $720,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to study whether a phone-based palliative care intervention can help reduce access disparities for veterans, minorities and patients from rural areas who have advanced cancer.

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June 13, 2013

Walker named Fulbright Senior Specialist

Deborah Kirk Walker, D.N.P., assistant professor in the UAB School of Nursing has been named a Fulbright Senior Specialist by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board

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March 21, 2013

Walker elected to position in Oncology Nursing Society

Deborah Walker is an advanced practice nurse in adult hematology/oncology

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February 11, 2013

Bakitas appointed Marie L. O'Koren Endowed Chair

Marie Bakitas is an internationally recognized expert in palliative care

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April 05, 2012

The Critical Juncture

The UAB School of Nursing partners at the critical juncture to improve access and quality health care for communities

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November 29, 2001

Three receive ONS scholarships

Foundation support will help PhD, DNP and MSN students transform cancer care

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Collaborative Partnerships

A history of global and local thinking

UAB School of Nursing focuses on community impact, opportunities for collaboration throughout history
Collaborative Partnerships

Helping the community, teaching students

Partnership with i3 Academy charter school in Birmingham’s Woodlawn community combines missions of community care and nursing education
Collaborative Partnerships

Hodges recognized for contributions to women’s health

2020 Inspiration in Women’s Health from National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health recognizes dedication to combat human trafficking, help victims
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Nurse Family Partnership graduates first class

Has seen more than 100 successful births since beginning nearly three years ago
Collaborative Partnerships

Nurse-Managed Clinics win top national award

PATH, HRTSA Clinics honored for creative integration of interprofessional education, collaborative practice for chronic disease management in vulnerable populations
Collaborative Partnerships

Nu at-Large Chapter of Sigma established

Chapter welcomes community partners UAB Hospital and Tuskegee University
Collaborative Partnerships

School earns PAHO/WHO redesignation

Sixth redesignation marks 25 years of continuous service as a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for International Nursing
Collaborative Partnerships

Partnership earns top AACN award

UAB Nursing Partnership earns AACN's New Era for Academic Nursing Award
Collaborative Partnerships

Graduates continue growing through residency

Cahaba Medical Care residency offers additional knowledge, experience
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BSC partnership ‘a win for both schools’
UAB School of Nursing, Birmingham-Southern College come together to expand nursing pipeline.
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Partners in mental health care
Children’s and School of Nursing come together for mental health residency
Collaborative Partnerships

Helping through trauma-informed care

Faculty practice helps residents at The WellHouse through trauma-informed care
Collaborative Partnerships

Expanding care to at-risk families
The Nurse Family Partnership of Central Alabama, administered by the UAB School of Nursing, now provides mental health care services to clients to help families achieve emotional wellbeing.
Collaborative Partnerships

Grant to fund bleeding control education
Multi-school, grant-funded initiative will help spread bleeding control training across Birmingham.
Collaborative Partnerships

SON, AirMed enter partnership
Partnership with AirMed international prepares health care professionals through simulation, training
Collaborative Partnerships

Quilts give comfort through community
Community groups donate quilts for first-time mothers in Nurse-Family Partnership program
Collaborative Partnerships

Alumni team up against opioids
Langner and White awarded for innovative ideas at InnoHack 2018
Collaborative Partnerships

Partnering to impact global education
Ladores helping visiting Thai PhD students complete dissertation proposals
Collaborative Partnerships

School, BVAMC leading Veterans' health care
New Post-Baccalaureate Nurse Residency increases impact, scope of unique Veterans' initiative, joins three other Veterans' health care initiatives
Collaborative Partnerships

School, BVAMC partner on CE event
Topics include PTSD, borderline personality disorder, antipsychotic medications, insomnia
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Leading transitional care
UAB Nursing Partnership nationally recognized for nurse-managed HRSA Heart Failure Clinic success
Collaborative Partnerships

Lee takes unique path to VANAP Mental Health NP Residency
Photojournalist turned U.S. Army nurse is shining example of School's commitment to providing quality health care for Veterans
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Returned Peace Corps Volunteers excel in AMNP program
Experiences abroad help Nieuwenhuys, Strawn succeed in School's accelerated master's curriculum
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AMNP students get real-world look at harsh realities of life for vulnerable populations
Unique approach to community health clinicals enhances meaning, creativity
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It takes a village
Presentation on Jan. 31 will spotlight UAB School of Nursing's efforts to care for Jefferson County's most vulnerable medical populations
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Breaking down more barriers to health care
Expanded partnership with Aletheia House will provide increased access to medically underserved populations in Bessemer
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Alumni leading nursing education in Thailand
Kunaviktikul reappointed as dean, Kaewthummanukul to serve as an associate dean of Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Nursing
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Veterans CAN! Program a life-changer for Tanisha Jordan
Active duty U.S. airman relishing opportunity to pursue BSN degree at UAB School of Nursing
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Markaki named deputy director of PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center
Will join the School in mid-August from the University of Crete, succeed now-retired Dr. Lynda Wilson
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ESGR honors McMullan for commitment to students meeting military requirements
Organization recognizes employers who support, value employment of U.S. service members
Collaborative Partnerships

Waldrop climbed ladder quickly in MHNP Residency Program
Made transition from resident in the School to VA co-director in less than three years
Collaborative Partnerships

UAB School of Nursing partnerships with VA, veterans continue to flourish
Strong relationships producing health care professionals who are well prepared to identify and care for veterans wherever they are
Collaborative Partnerships

U.S. Army promotes PhD student Swiger to lieutenant colonel
UAB School of Nursing colleagues mark special day with ceremony, reception
Collaborative Partnerships

Formal expansion announced of UAB Nursing - partnership among School, Health System, Hospital
Emphasizes lifelong learning, professional development and innovation, especially in the areas of quality and safety
Collaborative Partnerships

Deupree, UAB leading Health Literacy Partnership of Alabama
Assistant professor serving as chair of statewide panel focusing on increasing the public's basic understanding of health information and services
Collaborative Partnerships

Work at PATH Clinic providing "in-depth education"
First School of Nursing student to serve as triage tech Hannah Wood having a positive impact in critical assessment role
Collaborative Partnerships

Child Care: Faculty Collaborate with Children’s of Alabama to Improve Care, Outcomes for Patients and Nurses
The School of Nursing collaborates with Children’s of Alabama, both academically and clinically, to improve care and outcomes for the young people who receive care there
Collaborative Partnerships

Successfully leading transitional care innovations
Three nurse-managed clinics provide care for those with diabetes and heart failure, and Veterans with mental health needs
Collaborative Partnerships

UAB School of Nursing students, faculty help those in need at health fair
Combine with community partners for successful events in two medically underserved Birmingham-area suburbs
Collaborative Partnerships

International partnership with Hacettepe University beneficial for both schools, students, faculty
Hacettepe University is a distinguished, highly advanced, research-based institution in the heart of Ankara, Turkey, and much like UAB, it educates many of the country’s nursing leaders
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Dr. Larry Dossey to present lecture on integrative medicine Dec. 3
Author of 12 books dealing with consciousness, spirituality, and healing, including The New York Times bestseller “Healing Words: The Power Of Prayer And The Practice Of Medicine,” and most recently “One Mind: How Our Mind Is Part Of A Greater Consciousness And Why It Matters”
Collaborative Partnerships

Successfully leading transitional care innovations
Three nurse-managed clinics provide care for those with diabetes and heart failure, and Veterans with mental health needs
Collaborative Partnerships

VA Nursing Academic Partnership earns 2015 AACN Exemplary Academic-Practice Partnership Award
Recognized for demonstrating innovative, sustained relationship and for demonstrating positive, measurable outcomes
Collaborative Partnerships

PATH Clinic has new home
UAB School of Nursing’s PATH Clinic serves vulnerable populations with diabetes
Collaborative Partnerships

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
Collaborative Partnerships

UAB School of Nursing redesignated PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center another four years
The UAB School of Nursing is one of nine WHO Collaborating Centers in Nursing in the United States and one of 43 in the world.
Collaborative Partnerships

School helps The Foundry win grant for Food Truck
Grant helps The Foundry support Oasis Produce Pantry Food Truck, bring nursing students to teach nutrition in low-income Birmingham suburb
Collaborative Partnerships

AACN CEO visits UAB School of Nursing, BVAMC
Deborah Trautman meets with UAB and Birmingham VA Medical Center representatives to learn more about VA Nursing Academic Partnership
Collaborative Partnerships

School hosts Certification Exam Review
First ANCC Nurse Executive/Nurse Executive Advanced Certification Exam Review held in UAB School of Nursing
Collaborative Partnerships

Five questions with Jim Raper

Get to know Jim Raper a tenured Professor in the UAB School of Medicine, the only nurse with a primary appointment, and holds a secondary appointment in the School of Nursing.
Collaborative Partnerships

Advanced practice nursing at the 1917 Clinic

Jim Raper is proud to be a nurse practitioner and to have been the first nurse to direct a medical clinic at UAB. This, he said, has afforded him the opportunity to incorporate advanced practice nursing into every aspect of the 1917 Clinic.
Collaborative Partnerships

NEPQR making a difference for those living with diabetes
Diabetes is an enormous problem in Alabama, but a UAB School of Nursing-managed post-discharge diabetes clinic is making the difference for hundreds of uninsured patients.
Collaborative Partnerships

Leading transitional care
Imagine being discharged from the hospital knowing you suffer from heart failure, and you have no access to continuing outpatient care. What do you do when you’re in trouble—go to the emergency room, get readmitted, or worse, do nothing? It’s a recipe for a vicious cycle that could have disastrous outcomes.
Collaborative Partnerships

Nursing without walls
Nursing without walls—delivering quality care to populations how, when and where they need, and caring for their unique needs without traditional encumbrances—has become the essence of nursing that is practiced, taught and studied at the UAB School of Nursing.
Collaborative Partnerships

New wounds, new approach
The UAB School of Nursing and Birmingham VA Medical Center are again expanding their 43-year-old partnership and the focus on Veterans' mental health needs.
Collaborative Partnerships

Cancer resources at your fingertips
It has not taken Assistant Professor Deborah Walker, DNP, CRNP, AOCN, long to prepare her recently launched cancer resources smart phone app to go beyond Birmingham or cancer.
Collaborative Partnerships

UAB Gets Grant to Continue Interprofessional Education
The UAB School of Dentistry, in partnership with the UAB schools of Medicine, Nursing, Health Professions and Optometry, received a $150,000 renewal grant through the DentaQuest Foundation to train professional students to work collaboratively and recognize when they should make referrals to other professions.
Collaborative Partnerships

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.
Collaborative Partnerships

Harper named to Department of Veterans Affairs' Special Medical Advisory Group

Advising on matters relating to the care and treatment of Veterans
Collaborative Partnerships

UAB Dentistry Cares Community Day charity event treats more than 350

More than 500 volunteers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry, the UAB School of Nursing, Cahaba Valley Health Care, and other local dentists, health agencies and companies cared for more than 350 people today as part of the first UAB Dentistry Cares Community Day.
Collaborative Partnerships

UAB School of Nursing reopens health clinic at The Foundry

The UAB School of Nursing has acquired the health clinic at The Foundry Rescue Mission and Recovery Center in Bessemer and began seeing patients – both residents of The Foundry and members of the community in need of health care – July 1, 2013.
Collaborative Partnerships

Nursing partners to expand care in rural Alabama

Nursing, Medicine partner in AHEC initiative to expand access to primary care — especially for rural and other under-served populations — in Alabama using a five-year, $5.25-million HRSA grant
Collaborative Partnerships

Faculty practice showcases osteoporosis work
UAB School of Nursing faculty provide leadership in clinical practice for those living with osteoporosis
Collaborative Partnerships

The Critical Juncture
The UAB School of Nursing partners at the critical juncture to improve access and quality health care for communities

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