Local American Association for Men in Nursing chapter establishes new mentorship program.

Partners nursing, social work to create interprofessional care providers for opioid use disorder

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

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

School builds on international focus through Global Health Task Force.

Cahaba Medical Care residency offers additional knowledge, experience

UAB School of Nursing, Birmingham-Southern College come together to expand nursing pipeline.

Research, education part of expanding partnership at sister WHO Collaborating Center

Children’s and School of Nursing come together for mental health residency

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.

The School’s PMHNP Specialty Track is helping meet a need for more mental health care providers.

UAB School of Nursing joins, supports global campaign to advance role of nurses in health care.

Partnership with AirMed international prepares health care professionals through simulation, training

Community groups donate quilts for first-time mothers in Nurse-Family Partnership program

Project focuses on medically underserved areas and includes building and educating undergraduate students, practicing RNs in team-focused primary care

Election was based upon an exemplary career, educational and research contributions to practice across UAB and in other academic, clinical settings

Langner and White awarded for innovative ideas at InnoHack 2018

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

School's students, faculty, staff donate time to prepare MedHope Africa for Ugandan mission

Topics include PTSD, borderline personality disorder, antipsychotic medications, insomnia

Poe, Polancich poster presentation shines spotlight on UAB Nursing Partnership at QSEN National Forum

UAB Nursing Partnership nationally recognized for nurse-managed HRSA Heart Failure Clinic success

Photojournalist turned U.S. Army nurse is shining example of School's commitment to providing quality health care for Veterans

Experiences abroad help Nieuwenhuys, Strawn succeed in School's accelerated master's curriculum

The UAB School of Nursing's leadership stretches throughout the nation and across the globe.

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

13th overall puts School among top five public Schools of Nursing in nation

Deputy director believes 'think globally, act locally' should be way of life for everyone at the UAB School of Nursing

School partners with One Roof for annual Point in Time homeless community census

Jumped 11 spots from 2015 ranking, boasting nearly $2.2 million from NIH in 2016

Presentation on Jan. 31 will spotlight UAB School of Nursing's efforts to care for Jefferson County's most vulnerable medical populations

Expanded partnership with Aletheia House will provide increased access to medically underserved populations in Bessemer

Kunaviktikul reappointed as dean, Kaewthummanukul to serve as an associate dean of Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Nursing

Long, bumpy road leads to success for Veteran in School's MSN Adult-Gero Primary Care NP specialty track

Professor recognized for visionary leadership in protecting children's health

Crucial funding ensures the best and brightest nurses continue advanced nursing studies

Walker, Bakitas, Sipples to discuss methods for enhancing palliative care, oncology curricula at 2016 ICCN gathering in Hong Kong

Trip strengthen ties with Chiang Mai University, puts UAB faculty, doctoral education on global stage

PATH Clinic, Heart Failure Clinic, residents of rural Alabama areas will benefit from Federal agency's focus on improving health equality

Funding will help mentor, mentee continue research into various aspects of military nursing

Organization recognizes employers who support, value employment of U.S. service members

Made transition from resident in the School to VA co-director in less than three years

Strong relationships producing health care professionals who are well prepared to identify and care for veterans wherever they are

UAB School of Nursing colleagues mark special day with ceremony, reception

Sessions help increase knowledge base, student confidence

Assistant professor serving as chair of statewide panel focusing on increasing the public's basic understanding of health information and services

Becomes first to occupy a new permanent nursing seat, will work to continue expanding the role of nurses

Potential nursing students offered career, college guidance through tailored freshman course

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student will lead project to establish urgent care clinic in East Lake

March 3 event offering lineup of nationally, internationally known presenters with expertise in informatics, simulation and distance education

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

Three nurse-managed clinics provide care for those with diabetes and heart failure, and Veterans with mental health needs

Combine with community partners for successful events in two medically underserved Birmingham-area suburbs

School one of 60 to receive funding support for ceremony

Students showcase service learning projects at UAB Fall Expo

Veterans come with unique backgrounds and needs, and it is imperative that nurses are adequately prepared to care for Veteran patients and their families

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

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

Three nurse-managed clinics provide care for those with diabetes and heart failure, and Veterans with mental health needs

Recognized for demonstrating innovative, sustained relationship and for demonstrating positive, measurable outcomes

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

Internationally renowned UAB School of Nursing dementia expert Dr. Rita Jablonski-Jaudon offers tips to make holidays enjoyable for both patients and families

Honored for her leadership and dedication to international nursing education and continuing efforts to raise intercultural understanding within the health-care field

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

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

Four faculty members and five alumni from the UAB School of Nursing named Academy Fellows

Dean Doreen Harper is a 2015 inductee into the Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame

UAB School of Nursing’s PATH Clinic serves vulnerable populations with diabetes

B-Metro Nursing Excellence faculty and alumni award recipients honored for leadership, innovation and expertise

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

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

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

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.

UAB School of Nursing AMNP students say poverty simulations are an eye-opening experience that will improve patient care

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.

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

Dean credits great team work by faculty, staff, students, alumni as key to significant rise, will continue momentum in serving Alabama and beyond

Honored for bridging CNL education, practice; leadership through innovative collaboration with education, practice to improve patient care quality

Leadership Practices for Quality and Safety, for early and mid-career nurse leaders, enhances leadership practices for quality, safety improvement

Grant helps The Foundry support Oasis Produce Pantry Food Truck, bring nursing students to teach nutrition in low-income Birmingham suburb

Deborah Trautman meets with UAB and Birmingham VA Medical Center representatives to learn more about VA Nursing Academic Partnership

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

Harper receives appointment to Department of Veterans Affairs' National Academic Affiliations Council

One faculty member and three alumni from the UAB School of Nursing honored at AAN Alumni and Friends Reception

Nominees cited for dedication, compassion and leadership include faculty, alumni and students

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ultimate goal is to improve global health

Barkley Award comes from UAB MHRC

Her ultimate goal is to reduce practice barriers for nurse practitioners

Fellows represent variety of interests in education, research and service

Bakitas honored for dedication to teaching advanced practice nurses

Sahwan chooses UAB over other partner schools for guidance in opening new unit at hospital in Saudi Arabia

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.

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.

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.

hirey is an internationally recognized expert in leadership and management 

Advising on matters relating to the care and treatment of Veterans

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.

Heaton earned her master's at University of Louisville

Earned her doctorate in nursing from the University of Kentucky

Awards mark contributions in teaching and  service

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.

 

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.

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.

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.

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

VA Nursing Academy provides focused, intense education to help serve the health care needs of Veterans, other patients

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 

UAB School of Nursing faculty provide research to help those living with HIV cope with chronic conditions

UAB School of Nursing faculty provide leadership in clinical practice for those living with osteoporosis

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.

Marie Bakitas is an internationally recognized expert in palliative care

Research by UAB nurses is enhancing the quality of life for communities around the world

Karen Heaton working to improve the health of most visible invisible workers in America

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

Karen Heaton will use R21 award to study the effects and feasibility of a computer-based intervention on truck drivers' sleep