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  • Meet the Trailblazers

    August 5, 2014

    When the class of 2013 tosses their caps in the air on May 21 at CUSON graduation, they will join the ranks of alumni who work as leaders in varied nursing roles across the country and around the...

    Graduates

  • CUSON’s First Interdisciplinary Simulation Teaches Communication Skills During an Emergency

    August 5, 2014

    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...

    Midwifery

  • Columbia Nursing Well Represented at Leading Infection Control Conference

    August 5, 2014

    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...

    Elaine Larson, PhD

  • Many Reasons for Optimism

    August 5, 2014

    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...

  • Five Tips for Graduating Nurses

    August 5, 2014

    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...

    Graduates

  • Empowering Practice:The Time is Now

    August 5, 2014

    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...

    scope of practice

  • 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)

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