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  • "Healthcare is a Human Right"

    August 5, 2014

    Jennifer Dohrn is the director of the Office of Global Initiatives and an assistant professor at Columbia Nursing where she teaches community health. She oversees collaboration with Columbia...

    Jennifer Dohrn

  • Columbia Nurses Change the World

    August 5, 2014

    Accomplished, successful students from throughout the United States  —and indeed, the world — come to Columbia Nursing because of our highly regarded academic programs.  Bright, inquisitive minds...

    Tuyet-vy Nguyen with the Vietnamese orphans she worked with prior to attending Columbia Nursing

  • A Researcher Who Still Talks to Nurses in their Own Language

    August 5, 2014

    Dawn Dowding is a Professor of Nursing, and serves a joint appointment between Columbia Nursing and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.  Previously, Dowding served as Professor of Applied...

    Dawn Dowding

  • Columbia Nursing Research Presented at Premier Infectious Disease Conference

    August 5, 2014

    Columbia Nursing presented a wide range of research at this year’s IDWeek meeting in San Francisco. IDWeek highlights the latest developments in prevention, diagnosis, treatment and epidemiology...

    The need for effective monitoring of infection-control practices was a theme running through Columbia Nursing presentations at IDWeek 2013

  • Our Emphasis on "Health for All"

    August 5, 2014

    Twenty-first-century nursing at Columbia is characterized by a dynamic interplay of innovation and continuity. New and fresh ideas come at a fast pace — yet we continue to honor and learn from our...

    Henry Street Settlement

  • "Never Get Too Comfortable with a Patient's Routine"

    August 5, 2014

    Since 2009, Michelle Kolb has worked at the NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital caring for infants, children, and young adults who have received bone marrow transplants as part...

    Michelle Kolb

  • Columbia Nursing Alumni Reception Highlights Global Effort to Prevent and Treat Obstetric Fistula

    August 5, 2014

    Njoki Ng’ang’a began her career with one goal – to help improve the health of underserved women. When she arrived in Niger in 2006 amid a severe famine brought on by an infestation of locusts,...

    Njoki Ng’ang’a

  • Genetics: Changing Healthcare and Changing Nursing

    August 5, 2014

    Scientists completed sequencing the human genome over a decade ago, but as Assistant Professor Kathleen Hickey, EdD, FNP, ANP, FAHA, FAAN likes to point out, nurses have been working in genetics...

    DNA

  • Global Health is Also Local Health

    August 5, 2014

    It was another long hot summer in the Dominican Republic, but for Columbia Nursing students at the Clinica de Familia in the city of La Romana, the intensity of the heat was overshadowed by the...

    Columbia Nursing students were exposed to global health issues for a four week clinical rotation in the Dominican Republic.

  • Columbia Nursing Research Spotlighted at AcademyHealth Forum

    August 5, 2014

    Selected from among the nation’s leading healthcare health sciences researchers, nurse scientists from Columbia University School of Nursing presented at the AcademyHealth Electronic Data Methods...

    PhD candidate Catherine Cohen and Professor Patricia Stone, PhD

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