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Qaashuntae Wright, Air Force Major, a critical care nurse practitioner, and DNP alumna

A Screening to Dismantle 'Involuntary Noncompliance'

Patients' unmet social needs influence everything—from medication adherence to mental health. But Maj. Q Wright didn't anticipate just how powerful a new, simpler, shorter but bolder social needs screening tool would be until she saw it in action.

Birthing simulation - the patient experiences contractions while a student tends her

Hey, Baby

Move over, Noelle. Get a look at some new, wearable, birthing sim tech that's bringing nursing students' preparation for labor and delivery to a new level.

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Meet the Post-Docs

For the next year, three new fellows will investigate the link between oxytocin and depression, endometrial cancer and rurality, and CPM decision-making. After that? They hope to become assistant professors.

Alumnus Rhys Williams, who owns a company that contracts with agencies that need to ready their employees for disaster.

Ready, Set, Disaster

Alumnus Rhys Williams, a family nurse practitioner, Army veteran, and a Navy Seal medic knows calamity and how to tend it. It's his job.

Departments

Enter Educators

It’s not easy finding nursing faculty. But two new programs offer on-ramps for UVA Health nurses interested in adding a new skill to their toolbox: teaching.

Announcing Guaranteed Alumni Admission Across MSN, Certificate, and DNP Programs

For the first time in its 120-year history, the School will guarantee alumni of its programs admission into its wealth of MSN, post-master's, and DNP programs.

From the Archives

In 1965, Chinese American nurse Rita Chow began pioneering the use of video recordings in the ICU to document, assess, and improve cardiac care.

In His Own Words

Rising 3rd year Abdallah Aljerjawi knows about being an outsider in America. In the Richmond Times-Dispatch, he takes on the Supreme Court's recent decision.

What Every Clinician Should Know When Caring for Trans Patients at End-of-Life

Of the 1.4 million transgender Americans, more than 20% is older than age 65, which means transgender elders are both living and dying among us.

In Brief

An AAN "Living Legend." An "Animating Alzheimer's" film premiere. An NCI visiting scholar and an AACN Diversity Institute grad. Our news in brief.