Climate change is quickly altering life in Nicaragua, where prof. Emma Mitchell empowers nurses to prepare. How lessons there are preparing nurses here, too.

Paul Merrel belongs to an endangered species: he's an experienced critical care nurse who practices at the bedside, and not once has been tempted to leave.

Some nursing students take their roles a step further through volunteerism. They are emergency responders, every inch of them a helper.

You can do A LOT with $20 million. Expand a sim lab. Triple the size of a program for working RNs. Open to new learning sites. And create 1,000 new nurses.

An NSF grant for prof. Jessica Keim-Malpass, MS Society praise for DNP student Susan Stuart, and a battery of events for youngsters considering nursing.

Best day? Most memorable patient? Most difficult hurdle raced as a nurse? We asked, and Dean Pam Cipriano answered.