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  • Getting to the Heart of the Matter

    November 12, 2015

    Kathleen T. Hickey is an associate professor at Columbia University School of Nursing.

  • Career Fair Highlights Opportunities for Columbia Nursing Students

    November 12, 2015

    This year’s career fair offered students the chance to meet with more than 25 prospective employers from around the tri-state area and speak to representatives of various nursing organizations. 

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  • Grants, Faculty Publications, and Other News November 2015

    November 11, 2015

    Grants, Faculty Publications, and Other News November 2015

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  • A Lesson in Cuban Health Care

    October 12, 2015

    On a steamy day in August, a group of 20 Columbia Nursing students watched the American flag rise over the U.S. embassy in Havana for the first time since 1961. Standing in the Plaza de la Revolucion, a few hundred yards from the embassy, they recorded videos on their smart phones, posted selfies on Instagram, and chatted with Cuban citizens, some wearing T-shirts with the American president’s face.

    Woman standing beside a hospital sign in Cuba.

  • Columbia Nursing Study Finds Significant Time and Costs Demands for Nurse Researchers to Prepare and Submit NIH Grant Applications

    October 12, 2015

    In the first known study of its kind, researchers at Columbia University School of Nursing have found that individuals involved in nursing research spent as much as the equivalent of four 40-hour weeks and $270,240 in faculty and staff salary and associated costs preparing and submitting a single successful National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant application for funds to conduct their research.

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  • Moving the Agenda Forward for Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Research in Southern and Eastern African Countries

    October 12, 2015

    A milestone conference brought together nurse and midwifery leaders from 13 sub-Saharan African nations with the goal of creating an action plan that identifies knowledge gaps in clinical care.

    Group posing outside a building entrance in Kenya.

  • Grants, Faculty Publications, and Other News October 2015

    October 7, 2015

    Grants, Publications, and Other News October 2015

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  • Nurses Are the Eyes and Ears of Health Care

    October 7, 2015

    Pat Stone on the role that real world comparative and economic research plays in forming public policy, helping prevent adverse events, and improving the quality of patient care overall.  

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  • Supporting LGBT Elders

    September 21, 2015

    Gabler works with elder LGBT patients like Robert as part of the e-linc initiative (Elder LBGT Interprofessional Collaborative Care Program) led by Columbia Nursing, which aims to eliminate health disparities in New York City’s LGBT elder population. Jeffrey Kwong, DNP, director, Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program, secured a $1.5 million cooperative agreement from Health Resources and Service Administration earlier this year to help address common medical and mental health needs of the aging LGBT population. 

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  • "¿Cómo se siente?"

    September 10, 2015

    To help nurses, researchers and other health care providers trying to improve communication about health with and within Spanish-speaking populations, Columbia Nursing PhD student Samantha Stonbraker identified and summarized 19 validated methods that can be used to measure health literacy among Latinos in clinical and research settings. Her research, “Tools to Measure Health Literacy Among Spanish Speakers: An Integrative Review of the Literature,” was recently published in the journal Patient Education and Counseling.  

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