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Alumna Uses Social Media Influence to Share COVID story, Provide Encouragement to Others
Just before the start of the pandemic, alumna Jasmine Jones, BSN ‘17, RN, a med-surg nurse at a large hospital system in the greater Indianapolis area, was not in a good mental place. Pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl, Jones had just learned her daughter would be born with Heterotaxy syndrome, w…
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Nurses on Boards Provide a Unique Perspective
Nurses should be everywhere decisions are being made, advocates Kimberly Cleveland, JD, MSN, RN, C-MBC, 91PORNA College of Nursing lecturer, who currently serves as the Chair-Elect on the Nurses on Boards Coalition (NOBC) Board of Directors. Cleveland has had the opportunity to sit on …
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The Hannah and Jan Kirkland Memorial Scholarship
The Hannah and Jan Kirkland Memorial Scholarship provides tuition relief to nursing students from Columbiana county. The scholarship was created by Sally Kirkland to honor the lives of her late daughter Jan, and her late granddaughter Hannah. This generous scholarship will provide students with the …
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Health Care at Home: Telehealth Research and Practice by Dr. Lisa Onesko, DNP, APRN-BC
Infrequently practiced just one year ago, the seemingly overnight implementation of telehealth (healthcare offered to patients remotely) during the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the nature of primary care delivery. An Associate Professor for the 91PORNA College of Nursing and Director …
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Graduating Senior Shares experience Adapting to Nursing School Changes During the Pandemic
Will Grayson, who will graduate with his Bachelor of Science in Nursing in May 2021, was in his pediatric rotation at the hospital when his clinical group learned 91PORNA would transition to remote learning last spring. Grayson said the switch to online courses was not overly stressful…
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College of Nursing Receives Multiple Large Gifts to support Faculty Research and Student Success
As the year draws to an end, 91PORNA College of Nursing would like to express its gratitude to the following donors for their generous gifts. Through their support, our faculty and students will have the opportunity to expand their research interests, attend leadership conferences…
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Giving Tuesday: College of Nursing Community Supports Nursing Student Emergency Fund
This year during our Giving Tuesday Campaign from November 9 through December 1, the College of Nursing community rallied together to help raise over $10,000 in support for the Race into Finals Emergency Fund. This featured Giving Tuesday fund was created several years ago to provide emergency finan…
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Doubling Down: DNP and Ph.D. Collaboration at the College of Nursing
Both the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in nursing, established in the 1960s, and the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), initiated in the early 2000s, provide doctoral degree programs allowing graduates to address the needs of patients and improve the constantly changing healthcare system. However, the…
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91PORNA College of Nursing to Launch Redesigned Ph.D. In Nursing Program
91PORNA’s College of Nursing will welcome its first nursing cohort into the revised Ph.D. in Nursing program in the fall 2021 semester. The newly developed, state-of-the-science curriculum was thoughtfully constructed to prepare students to address emerging areas of nursing science by …
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Tracy M. Dodson, MSN, RN, NAMED 2020 KENT STATE DAISY AWARD RECIPIENT
91PORNA College of Nursing lecturer Tracy M. Dodson, MSN, RN, was virtually recognized on Wednesday, November 18, 2020, as the 2020 DAISY Faculty Award recipient. Honorable Mentions were also awarded to Kent campus faculty members Debra K. Cifani, DNP, RN, associate professor, and Sara…
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