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Envisioning Our Extraordinary Future

The School’s first strategic plan in more than a decade is charting its path for the next 10 years. What does that roadway look like?

From the Dean

The School has created a strategic plan that's not meant for a dusty shelf or drawer, writes Dean Marianne Baernholdt.

NURSING NARRATIVES

This edition of NARRATIVES offers space to nursing students who are, have been, or plan to be members of the U.S. Armed Forces.

A nursing student takes a patient's blood pressure

It Takes a Village

Why community health clinical rotations at Westhaven's CARES clinic remind students like Conoor Brumbaugh 'why [they] got into nursing in the first place.'

Five Questions With Post-Doctoral Fellow Alanna Bergman

Bergman, who studies interventions to support people with TB, HIV, and with substance use disorders, on her pathway into nursing science.

Food Rx for Rural Health

Rural Nelson County, Va., is home to a new nutritional support program for older residents, thanks to a Humana Foundation grant earned by prof. Kelley Anderson.

Departments

Students in Focus

Writing can be hard. How the Writing Accountability Group aims to create community to ease nurse writers' anxiety and burden.

On My Bookshelf

What associate dean for nursing research and maternal health scholar Jeanne Alhusen read as a child, read with her own children, gives, and assigns.

In Their Own Words

How a hastily taken job as a receptionist helped CNL student Lauren Painter find her way to nursing school.

Nursing During the Vietnam War: the Dianne Gagliano Collection

A dive into the lives and work of the more than 9,000 nurses who served during the war in Vietnam.

From the Alumni Association

Associate president Josh James looks back on reunions, Homecoming, and shares upcoming ways for alumni and nursing students to meet this winter and next spring.

By the Numbers

After contracting during and immediately after COVID, interest in education abroad is up. WAY up.