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Film Screening of 'American Delivery' Marks National Nurses Week

As part National Nurses Week, the School will screen 'American Delivery,' a film about solving the maternal mortality crisis in U.S. healthcare.

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Van on the Run

Part of a nearly $350,000 federal grant to expand healthcare services, faculty like Amy Boitnott will provide on-board care as they teach student nurses.

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#MeetUsMonday - Meet Preceptor and NP Beth Jaeger-Landis

Jaeger-Landis (right), an acute care nurse practitioner, is an award-winning and long-time preceptor to advanced practice nursing students.

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UVA Faculty Members Gomes, Toll, Celebrated at Virginia Nurses Association Gala

Associate dean Melissa Gomes and assistant prof. Crystal Toll were celebrated at the annual Virginia Nurses Foundation / Virginia Nurses Association Gala.

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Marking Veterans Day 2024 - A Letter from Dean Marianne Baernholdt

A message from Dean Baernholdt to the School of Nursing community on Veterans Day.

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Professor Campbell, Chief Nurse Baker, Inducted American Academy of Nursing Fellows

Professor Campbell and Baker, University Medical Center's chief nursing officer and the School's associate dean for clinical affairs, became FAANs in fall 2024.

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'I Just Love It Here': On the Labor and Delivery Unit, Nursing Students Find Ca

BSN student Elissa Hoyt never thought she'd like assisting with childbirth. A rotation through UVA Health's Labor and Delivery Unit changed her mind.

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New CNL Hires Show the 'Why'

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Prof. Jones Earns UVA's Armstead Robinson Faculty Recognition Award for 2024

Jones, an NIH-funded nurse scientist who studies interventions for diverse patients with cancer, earned the Armstead Robinson Faculty Award for 2024.

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Meet the Nursing Students and Faculty Who Earned the 2024 MLK Award

Alhusen was applauded for research on women with disability, Jones for community engagement, and the BSNA founders for their leadership, advocacy, and activism.

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Second Act: CNL Grad Turned Professor Laurel Geis Finds It's Never Too Late for 'Hope at Work'

Geis, a CNL alumna, award-winning nurse, and now a clinical instructor and mentor to nursing students, has come full circle.

An OR nurse visits with Kenny and the CCI cart in the UVA Health hall

Compassionate Care Initiative Cart Rolls Again

The CCI cart, which debuted in 2017, is rolling again with visits to UVA Health units that requested its well-being resources, snacks, and therapy dog Kenny.

Dean Marianne Baernholdt

'I'm Your Dean, Too': Marianne Baernholdt on Collaboration and Professional Joy

Baernholdt, a close collaborator with UVA Health chief nursing officer Kathy Baker, has a new title at UVA Health: Dean of Professional Nursing.

Alumna Imani Marks with a patient at Community of Hope hospital in WDC

A Job Tailor Made for a CNL

Few health systems offer CNLs jobs designed specifically for their skills and education. But with demand for nurses at a peak, that might be starting to change.

The 2023 cohort of UVA Health RNs who became clinical instructors

School Launches Two New 'Earn While You Learn' Programs for Nurses

Two new opportunities for practicing nurses interested in becoming nurse educators are now online: a Clinical Instructor Workshop and a Nurse Educator Academy.

A gold badge with RN at the center to celebrate the School's preceptor-mentors who nurture BSN and APRN nursing students.

Nurse Preceptor-Mentors Earn Applause, Adulation, Awards

After being nominated by their students, three UVA Health nurse mentors earned 2023 'Outstanding Nursing Student Preceptor' awards.

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$5.9M Grant Supports UVA Research Into the Use of AI in Healthcare

The grant will help establish an “AI blueprint” for health care monitoring systems that serve a wider diversity of patient populations.

Pam Cipriano, dean emerita, who received a DAISY Lifetime Achievement Award

Pam Cipriano Receives DAISY Lifetime Achievement Award

Dean emerita Cipriano, president of the International Council of Nurses and former two-term ANA president, was lauded by colleagues as a natural born leader.

A diverse set of hands to convey diversity in artificial intelligence, the NIH-funded work of Ishan Williams and Randall Moorman.

Creating Artificial Intelligence 'In Full Color'

'AI informed by data from homogenous populations poorly generalize,' said Williams. 'That's why diverse approaches in healthcare, AI included, are so critical.'

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$14M Gift Increases Educational Access, Addresses Nurse and Nurse Faculty Shortages

A new gift from Joanne and Bill Conway will increase support for CNL and PhD students, and brings to $49M the couple's transformational support for the School.

Room to Reflect Resilience Toolbox with virtual reality glasses, headphones, sound machine and a pocket guide to mindfulness activities.

Survey says: 'Room to Reflect' yields resilience results

When hospital breakrooms got repurposed during the pandemic, a trio of nurses dreamed up an on-unit resilience toolbox and studied it. Now, the data are in.

Evelyn Gardner, LPN, UVA School of Nursing

Nurse Negotiator: Evelyn Rogers Gardner, LPN `61

Gardner, instrumental in the establishment of UVA's outpatient neurology clinic, also lobbied for wage increases for nurses throughout the 1970s and 80s.

Nurse manager Scott Austin (BSN `18), who works on the COVID unit on 3 West

$2.14M Grant Expands Training in Stress First Aid

A $2.14M grant will enable profs Westphal and Plews-Ogan to expand their Wisdom & Wellbeing and peer support training program for exhausted healthcare staff.

Mary Dixon, DNP graduate and chief nursing officer at UVA Health from 2017-2021.

DNP Graduate and Former UVA Health Chief Nurse looks back on COVID, and the origins of her care

As she retires from her role as UVA Health's chief nursing officer, Mary Dixon is also wrapping up her DNP and graduates this May.

Every year, we thank our preceptors.

To Our Preceptors: Thank You

Every year, we thank you, our preceptors, for the work you do to mentor nursing students at UVA. This year, we're trying something different.

UVA nursing professor Beth Quatrara and pediatric nurse Susan Steck with pediatric patient

Untethered: Getting Kids With Cancer IV-Pole-Free

'It helps them just be kids again,' said assistant prof. Beth Quatrara, who, with nurse Susan Steck, led the pilot study that's changed UVA Health protocol.

Handmade cloth masks sewn by UVA Nursing professor Beth Hundt

Critical Care RN, Prof, and Quilter Sews Face Masks

Beth Hundt, a critical care nurse and assistant professor, has sewn more than 40 face masks that she's shipped to hospitals through promedica.org.

Crystal Chu, PhD student and oncology nurse at Martha Jefferson Hospital, who's studying why growing numbers of women opt for Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomies.

PhD Student's Breast Cancer Decision-Aid Earns $30K American Cancer Society Grant

Crystal Chu, a PhD student, earned a $30K ACS grant to test her breast cancer decision aid focused on the risks of preventative mastectomies.

Kenny, the UVA School of Nursing's official therapy dog, looks up at the camera

Puppy Love

Rife with student ambassadors to carry forth their mission, Kenny, an Australian mini-Labradoodle is the Compassionate Care Initiative's first canine staffer.

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The Space Between

With help from School of Nursing experts, UVA Medical Center tweaks the transitions between operating room patients

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Cool Care, Warm Heart: Alumnus Mark Adams, BSN `97

CCU manager and UVA Nursing BSN alumnus Mark Adams on the cool technology that brings cardiac arrest patients back from the brink.

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Nurses at the 'Big Data' Table

With a $313K grant to integrate nurses' observations into statistical analyses, prof. Keim-Malpass on RNs' crucial role in driving big data forward.

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5 Questions with UVA Nursing Preceptor Laura Shepherd Cromwell, Pediatric Nurse

Laura Shepherd Cromwell, a pediatric nurse and preceptor to nursing students, received a shout-out from the SON for her incredible mentoring.

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5 Questions with Preceptor Mary Messer, ED Nurse

ED nurse Mary Messer, a preceptor for five years, on mentoring UVA Nursing students during their clinical rotations.

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Life, 101: UVA Grad Finds his Varied Past An Asset to his Care

A nurse whose varied experiences before entering the profession informs every part of his care

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Pair Up: LPHM Offers RN-MD Partners a Path to Better Teams

Making better partners, one RN-MD pair at a time

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Can something as simple as a colored bulb promote sleep in the hospital?

Can something as simple as a colored bulb promote sleep in the hospital?