April 25, 2019
Expanding our global footprint
School builds on international focus through Global Health Task Force.
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Global Leadership
April 25, 2019
Advancing health globally
The UAB School of Nursing's leadership stretches throughout the nation and across the globe.
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Global Leadership
April 08, 2019
Graduates continue growing through residency
Cahaba Medical Care residency offers additional knowledge, experience
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Valuable Resources
January 18, 2019
Partnership ‘a win for both schools’
UAB School of Nursing, Birmingham-Southern College come together to expand nursing pipeline.
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Collaborative Partnerships
December 26, 2018
Expanding collaboration in Jamaica
Research, education part of expanding partnership at sister WHO Collaborating Center
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Global Leadership
December 26, 2018
Partners in mental health care
Children’s and School of Nursing come together for mental health residency
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Collaborative Partnerships
November 08, 2018
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.
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Collaborative Partnerships
November 08, 2018
Expanding Mental Health Care Across the Lifespan
The School’s PMHNP Specialty Track is helping meet a need for more mental health care providers.
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Innovative Programs
October 12, 2018
School joins campaign to advance nursing
UAB School of Nursing joins, supports global campaign to advance role of nurses in health care.
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Global Leadership
October 04, 2018
SON, AirMed enter partnership
Partnership with AirMed international prepares health care professionals through simulation, training
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Collaborative Partnerships
September 20, 2018
Quilts give comfort through community
Community groups donate quilts for first-time mothers in Nurse-Family Partnership program
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Collaborative Partnerships
August 29, 2018
$2.8M grant will establish primary care RN workforce
Project focuses on medically underserved areas and includes building and educating undergraduate students, practicing RNs in team-focused primary care
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Sustainable Scholarship
May 16, 2018
Shirey is NAP Distinguished Scholar and Fellow
Election was based upon an exemplary career, educational and research contributions to practice across UAB and in other academic, clinical settings
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Global Leadership
March 02, 2018
Alumni team up against opioids
Langner and White awarded for innovative ideas at InnoHack 2018
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Collaborative Partnerships
November 13, 2017
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
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Collaborative Partnerships
November 07, 2017
Serve Africa Day impacting health care globally
School's students, faculty, staff donate time to prepare MedHope Africa for Ugandan mission
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Global Leadership
October 27, 2017
School, BVAMC partner on CE event
Topics include PTSD, borderline personality disorder, antipsychotic medications, insomnia
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Collaborative Partnerships
August 25, 2017
Partnership presentation places 2nd
Poe, Polancich poster presentation shines spotlight on UAB Nursing Partnership at QSEN National Forum
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Global Leadership
June 27, 2017
Leading transitional care
UAB Nursing Partnership nationally recognized for nurse-managed HRSA Heart Failure Clinic success
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Collaborative Partnerships
Photojournalist turned U.S. Army nurse is shining example of School's commitment to providing quality health care for Veterans
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Collaborative Partnerships
April 27, 2017
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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Collaborative Partnerships
Associate professor serves as Nursing Discipline chair of international Children's Oncology Group
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Global Leadership
March 23, 2017
School rises again in U.S. News & World Report rankings
13th overall puts School among top five public Schools of Nursing in nation
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Global Leadership
Deputy director believes 'think globally, act locally' should be way of life for everyone at the UAB School of Nursing
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Global Leadership
March 17, 2017
Community nursing course offers students unique opportunity to impact Birmingham's homeless population
School partners with One Roof for annual Point in Time homeless community census
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Innovative Programs
February 20, 2017
School ranks 23rd nationally in NIH research funding
Jumped 11 spots from 2015 ranking, boasting nearly $2.2 million from NIH in 2016
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Sustainable Scholarship
January 20, 2017
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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Collaborative Partnerships
January 13, 2017
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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Collaborative Partnerships
January 13, 2017
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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Collaborative Partnerships
November 18, 2016
Primary Care Scholar Adams thankful for all his opportunities, support
Long, bumpy road leads to success for Veteran in School's MSN Adult-Gero Primary Care NP specialty track
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Innovative Programs
October 28, 2016
Environmental Protection Agency names Turner-Henson Child's Environmental Health Hero
Professor recognized for visionary leadership in protecting children's health
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Global Leadership
September 08, 2016
UAB School of Nursing secures more than $5.15 million for student support and innovative clinical training programs
Crucial funding ensures the best and brightest nurses continue advanced nursing studies
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Sustainable Scholarship
Walker, Bakitas, Sipples to discuss methods for enhancing palliative care, oncology curricula at 2016 ICCN gathering in Hong Kong
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Global Leadership
Trip strengthen ties with Chiang Mai University, puts UAB faculty, doctoral education on global stage
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Global Leadership
PATH Clinic, Heart Failure Clinic, residents of rural Alabama areas will benefit from Federal agency's focus on improving health equality
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Sustainable Scholarship
Funding will help mentor, mentee continue research into various aspects of military nursing
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Sustainable Scholarship
Organization recognizes employers who support, value employment of U.S. service members
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Collaborative Partnerships
Made transition from resident in the School to VA co-director in less than three years
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Collaborative Partnerships
Strong relationships producing health care professionals who are well prepared to identify and care for veterans wherever they are
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Collaborative Partnerships
UAB School of Nursing colleagues mark special day with ceremony, reception
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Collaborative Partnerships
Sessions help increase knowledge base, student confidence
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Innovative Programs
Assistant professor serving as chair of statewide panel focusing on increasing the public's basic understanding of health information and services
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Collaborative Partnerships
Becomes first to occupy a new permanent nursing seat, will work to continue expanding the role of nurses
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Global Leadership
April 14, 2016
Learning the nursing ropes early helps breed success
Potential nursing students offered career, college guidance through tailored freshman course
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Innovative Programs
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student will lead project to establish urgent care clinic in East Lake
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Global Leadership
February 12, 2016
UAB School of Nursing hosting mini conference on simulation and technology in nursing
March 3 event offering lineup of nationally, internationally known presenters with expertise in informatics, simulation and distance education
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Innovative Programs
January 12, 2016
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
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Collaborative Partnerships
January 05, 2016
Successfully leading transitional care innovations
Three nurse-managed clinics provide care for those with diabetes and heart failure, and Veterans with mental health needs
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Collaborative Partnerships
Combine with community partners for successful events in two medically underserved Birmingham-area suburbs
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Collaborative Partnerships
School one of 60 to receive funding support for ceremony
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Innovative Programs
Students showcase service learning projects at UAB Fall Expo
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Innovative Programs
December 09, 2015
Moss, colleagues develop competencies to help new nurses better respond to Veterans' needs
Veterans come with unique backgrounds and needs, and it is imperative that nurses are adequately prepared to care for Veteran patients and their families
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Sustainable Scholarship
December 04, 2015
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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Collaborative Partnerships
November 10, 2015
Peace Corps experience ignites desire for helping underserved
Erin Gockle was a Peace Corps Fellow while earning her BSN and now is an MSN student in the School's Graduate Nursing Education Primary Care Scholars initiative
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Innovative Programs
November 06, 2015
Successfully leading transitional care innovations
Three nurse-managed clinics provide care for those with diabetes and heart failure, and Veterans with mental health needs
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Collaborative Partnerships
November 05, 2015
VA Nursing Academic Partnership earns 2015 AACN Exemplary Academic-Practice Partnership Award
Recognized for demonstrating innovative, sustained relationship and for demonstrating positive, measurable outcomes
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Collaborative Partnerships
Their talk "Cognition and Vigilance in Shift-Working Nurses," is an offshoot of their collaborative research into staffing night shifts with workers who are genetically best suited to work during the overnight hours
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Sustainable Scholarship
October 29, 2015
Navigating the holidays can be difficult for those with dementia and their families
Internationally renowned UAB School of Nursing dementia expert Dr. Rita Jablonski-Jaudon offers tips to make holidays enjoyable for both patients and families
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Sustainable Scholarship
Honored for her leadership and dedication to international nursing education and continuing efforts to raise intercultural understanding within the health-care field
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Global Leadership
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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Global Leadership
October 20, 2015
Talk highlights how to create dementia-friendly holiday environments
Holiday celebrations can be overwhelming for those with memory loss but dementia-care expert Rita Jablonski-Jaudon is presenting tips on creating dementia-friendly family holidays
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Global Leadership
October 16, 2015
Nine from UAB School of Nursing named Academy Fellows
Four faculty members and five alumni from the UAB School of Nursing named Academy Fellows
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Global Leadership
October 09, 2015
Harper named to Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame
Dean Doreen Harper is a 2015 inductee into the Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame
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Global Leadership
September 16, 2015
PATH Clinic has new home
UAB School of Nursing’s PATH Clinic serves vulnerable populations with diabetes
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Collaborative Partnerships
August 21, 2015
Sixteen faculty and alumni honored by B-Metro
B-Metro Nursing Excellence faculty and alumni award recipients honored for leadership, innovation and expertise
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Global Leadership
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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Sustainable Scholarship
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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Sustainable Scholarship
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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Collaborative Partnerships
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.
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Collaborative Partnerships
UAB School of Nursing AMNP students say poverty simulations are an eye-opening experience that will improve patient care
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Innovative Programs
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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Global Leadership
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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Global Leadership
March 10, 2015
School jumps eight spots in US News rankings
Dean credits great team work by faculty, staff, students, alumni as key to significant rise, will continue momentum in serving Alabama and beyond
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Innovative Programs
February 27, 2015
Roussel receives inaugural CNL Educator Vanguard award
Honored for bridging CNL education, practice; leadership through innovative collaboration with education, practice to improve patient care quality
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Global Leadership
February 18, 2015
2015 leadership workshop is April 30-May 1
Leadership Practices for Quality and Safety, for early and mid-career nurse leaders, enhances leadership practices for quality, safety improvement
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Innovative Programs
January 30, 2015
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
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Collaborative Partnerships
January 20, 2015
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
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Collaborative Partnerships
January 08, 2015
School hosts Certification Exam Review
First ANCC Nurse Executive/Nurse Executive Advanced Certification Exam Review held in UAB School of Nursing
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Collaborative Partnerships
November 20, 2014
Harper to serve on VA National Academic Affiliations Council
Harper receives appointment to Department of Veterans Affairs' National Academic Affiliations Council
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Global Leadership
One faculty member and three alumni from the UAB School of Nursing honored at AAN Alumni and Friends Reception
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Global Leadership
October 27, 2014
Five faculty honored by B-Metro
Nominees cited for dedication, compassion and leadership include faculty, alumni and students
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Global Leadership
October 03, 2014
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.
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Collaborative Partnerships
October 03, 2014
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.
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Collaborative Partnerships
October 01, 2014
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.
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Collaborative Partnerships
October 01, 2014
Alumna named CNO of UAB Hospital
UAB Hospital Interim Chief Nursing Officer Terri Poe, who earned her BSN from the UAB School of Nursing in 1986 and her DNP from the School in 2013, has been named the hospital’s Chief Nursing Officer and Senior Associate Vice President.
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Global Leadership
October 01, 2014
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.
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Collaborative Partnerships
October 01, 2014
Real-world preparation
To strengthen teamwork and communication among disciplines, the UAB Schools of Nursing, Medicine and Health Professions are collaborating to offer immersive interprofessional simulation training, allowing students from different disciplines to work together in high-stress medical simulations before they enter the workforce.
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Innovative Programs
October 01, 2014
Life-saving research
Dr. June Cho dreams of giving preemies a better start. It is well known that testosterone is the primary hormone that increases bone and muscle mass as males grow. But could the very thing that strengthens boys during adolescence also be responsible for weakening them during infancy?
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Sustainable Scholarship
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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Collaborative Partnerships
September 30, 2014
Opening access for the underserved
Using a four-year, $1 million gift from The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, the UAB School of Nursing is creating a far-reaching program designed to open up more health care access in medically underserved rural Alabama.
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Valuable Resources
September 30, 2014
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.
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Collaborative Partnerships
September 30, 2014
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.
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Collaborative Partnerships
September 26, 2014
Wilson selected to serve on international nursing panel
Ultimate goal is to improve global health
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Global Leadership
September 26, 2014
Jukkala receives research award
Barkley Award comes from UAB MHRC
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Sustainable Scholarship
September 26, 2014
Deupree Selected for Highly Competitive National Nurse Fellowship
Her ultimate goal is to reduce practice barriers for nurse practitioners
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Sustainable Scholarship
September 26, 2014
Four from UAB School of Nursing named Academy Fellows
Fellows represent variety of interests in education, research and service
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Global Leadership
September 24, 2014
Bakitas named top professor by professional web site
Bakitas honored for dedication to teaching advanced practice nurses
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Global Leadership
September 24, 2014
Alumna Soha Sahwan looks to UAB School of Nursing for best practices
Sahwan chooses UAB over other partner schools for guidance in opening new unit at hospital in Saudi Arabia
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Global Leadership
September 19, 2014
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.
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Collaborative Partnerships
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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Innovative Programs
May 14, 2014
UAB Nursing gets $1.2M to educate veterans
School of Nursing has received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the Health Services Resources Administration to develop a program to help veterans with military medical experience more easily transition into the nursing profession.
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Innovative Programs
April 19, 2014
Shirey receives Alumni Legacy Leader Award
hirey is an internationally recognized expert in leadership and management
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Global Leadership
Advising on matters relating to the care and treatment of Veterans
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Collaborative Partnerships
Deuk Kyung Kim and Seung Min-Lee, nursing students from Wonju College of Medicine, at Yonsei University, South Korea, participated in a competitive two-week exchange program at the UAB School of Nursing. The students worked closely with mentor Dr. Youngshook Han from February 3 until February 14.
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Innovative Programs
Heaton earned her master's at University of Louisville
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Global Leadership
December 20, 2013
Heaton receives Outstanding Alumni Award from Kentucky
Earned her doctorate in nursing from the University of Kentucky
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Global Leadership
December 05, 2013
UAB School of Nursing faculty honored by NPAA
Awards mark contributions in teaching and service
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Global Leadership
November 21, 2013
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.
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Collaborative Partnerships
October 18, 2013
UAB School of Nursing's Shirey begins term as ABNS president
Maria Shirey, Ph.D., RN, FACHE, FAAN, assistant dean for clinical affairs and partnerships and professor in the Department of Community Health, Outcomes and Systems in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing, has been elected president of the American Board of Nursing Specialties (ABNS) for the 2013-15 term. Shirey began serving in that role on July 1 after having served as president-elect from 2011-13.
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Global Leadership
October 03, 2013
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.
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Collaborative Partnerships
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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Sustainable Scholarship
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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Sustainable Scholarship
March 21, 2013
VA Nursing Academy makes dreams come true
VA Nursing Academy provides focused, intense education to help serve the health care needs of Veterans, other patients
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Innovative Programs
March 21, 2013
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
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Collaborative Partnerships
March 21, 2013
Growing old with AIDS: facing new health concerns
UAB School of Nursing faculty provide research to help those living with HIV cope with chronic conditions
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Sustainable Scholarship
March 21, 2013
Faculty practice showcases osteoporosis work
UAB School of Nursing faculty provide leadership in clinical practice for those living with osteoporosis
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Collaborative Partnerships
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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Collaborative Partnerships
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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Sustainable Scholarship
April 05, 2012
Making Discoveries and Changing Lives
Research by UAB nurses is enhancing the quality of life for communities around the world
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Sustainable Scholarship
April 05, 2012
Safety on 18 wheels
Karen Heaton working to improve the health of most visible invisible workers in America
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Sustainable Scholarship
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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Collaborative Partnerships
October 13, 2011
Heaton receives NIOSH grant for truck driver study
Karen Heaton will use R21 award to study the effects and feasibility of a computer-based intervention on truck drivers' sleep
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Sustainable Scholarship
