A 32-year old woman has been in labor for two hours. Her blood pressure and pulse are normal, and her temperature is 98 degrees. Her water has just broken. Suddenly, the fetal heart rate drops to...
Columbia Nursing was well represented at this year’s meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) earlier this month in Ft. Lauderdale. One major theme...
Spring is a busy and exciting time for Columbia Nursing. Seasonal milestones this year included the annual reunion, followed by graduation ceremonies for the class of 2013, and then welcoming...
Employment of registered nurses is expected to grow 26 percent by 2020, faster than the average for all occupations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But landing the job is just the...
Earlier this year, a rider to New York State's budget stipulated that nurse practitioners be allowed to practice without a collaborating agreement with a physician. Lobbying by special interests...
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...
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...
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...
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 (...
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...
