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  • Making Women's Health a Priority

    August 5, 2014

    Despite spending upwards of $98 billion a year on hospitalizations for pregnancy and childbirth, the US ranks 50th in the world for maternal mortality, meaning 49 countries are better at keeping...

    Maternal Health

  • Learning from the Community

    August 5, 2014

    At first, Hana Conlon,’14, questioned whether she was helping people at her community service project at Narco Freedom, an outpatient drug and alcohol treatment facility in the South Bronx. It...

    Service to the Community

  • "Nurses Can Do Anything"

    August 5, 2014

    Susan Fox, MBA, (BS ’84) is the President of White Plains Hospital in White Plains, N.Y. and one of the few women presidents of an acute care hospital. She was hired in 2010 as the senior vice...

    Susan Fox

  • Alumni Profile: Janet Izlar, CRNA, DNAP, '06

    August 5, 2014

    Janice Izlar, CRNA, DNAP, (MS ’06) is the current president of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA).  The Association represents 44,000 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (...

    Janice Izlar, CRNA, DNAP, (MS '06)

  • A Ripple Effect for Women in Bangladesh

    August 5, 2014

    Jennifer Wilen didn’t think twice about eating papaya and banana slices from the same plates used by dais, Bangladeshi traditional birth attendants, considered at the bottom of the social strata...

    Women learning in Bangladesh

  • New Outpatient Center Re-energizes the Faculty Practice

    August 5, 2014

    You wake up one morning thinking you have strep throat. You frantically call your primary care doctor, who might not have any openings for a week. Fortunately, a better option exists for patients like this who want to squeeze medical appointments in between meetings.

    Electronic Signage

  • Giving to Our School Gains Momentum

    August 5, 2014

    Generosity of spirit is a part of a nurse’s job description. Nurses instinctively provide care unselfishly, care that extends not only to their patients, but also to their patients’ families,...

    Giving Hands

  • In Nurses We Trust

    August 5, 2014

    Just as the year 2012 ended, Gallup released a poll ranking the most trusted professions in America, and again, for the eleventh year in a row, nurses topped the list.  This news comes as no...

    nurse with elderly woman

  • First Nursing School CoSMO co-chair reflects on "running the show"

    August 5, 2014

    Sarah Rives, ’13, typically meets challenges head-on. As a volunteer at a clinic in the Dominican Republic, she developed a rapid testing program to reduce maternal HIV transmissions for women...

    CoSMO

  • Columbia Nursing Study Reveals Workplace Climate a Key Factor for Effective Professional Practice

    August 5, 2014

    More than a dozen states have passed legislation expanding the role of nurse practitioners (NPs) so they can help fill the shortage of primary care providers in the U.S. But a new study from...

    Research

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