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Nursing Schools Teach Advocacy Skills to Help Advance Health Equity

Insight Into Diversity

Nurses work in hospitals, nursing homes, schools, physician offices, residences, and businesses — anywhere health care services are provided. As members of the largest body of the health professions, nurses are a force to be reckoned with when it comes to policymaking and advocacy initiatives. Nationwide, there are nearly 4.2

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Dr. Georj Lewis Steps into Presidency at Clayton State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Clayton State University helps metro Atlanta thrive with top-ranked programs including nursing and by being the best support for students as they improve social mobility and advance their dreams and careers,” Lewis said.

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Looking Back to See Forward - Dr. Nic John Ramos

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I helped all sorts of hospital workers – from resident physicians to nurses to respiratory therapists to phlebotomists to food service and environmental service workers (janitors and housekeepers) – form their unions for better pay, working conditions, and benefits.” Their work helps make society a better place. “I

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Dr. Roberta Waite

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Roberta Waite is a tenured professor in doctoral nursing and associate dean of Community-Centered Health & Wellness and Academic Integration at Drexel University. Effective July 1, she will be the next dean of Georgetown University’s School of Nursing.

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Public health majors grow by more than 1,000 percent

Inside Higher Ed

She earned a nursing assistant certification in high school but decided not to pursue the field at Westminster College, a small private institution in Salt Lake City; she worried that it would limit her job opportunities when she graduated. “It is important to us that our students reflect society at large,” Burke said.

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UK “halfway step” to Horizon Europe association

The PIE News

” “We’ve been on tenterhooks for many months” The UK had set out contingency plans if association to the program did fail, which Nurse said should now “fall by the wayside” “The ones that had been put in place were with small countries or countries a long way away,” he said.

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New Health Care Schools Open with Emphasis on Workforce Development, Addressing Inequities

Insight Into Diversity

Degree programs are focused on global and community health, health administration and policy, nursing, nutrition and food studies, and social work. opened its School of Health, an interdisciplinary program once part of the former School of Nursing & Health Sciences, from which Georgetown’s new School of Nursing was also launched.