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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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  • Caring for Transgender Patients, Body and Mind

    September 10, 2015

    Walter Bockting is one of the world’s leading researchers on transgender health.

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  • Grants, Faculty Publications, and Other News September 2015

    September 10, 2015

    Grants, Faculty Publications and Other News, September 2015 

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  • Is Isolation Effective as a Precaution to Prevent MDRO Infection in Nursing Homes?

    September 8, 2015

    nfections are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in nursing homes with 3.8 million healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occurring annually, contributing to nearly 400,000 deaths and as much as $2 billion in hospitalization costs. 

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  • Professor Bakken named IOM Nurse Scholar in Residence

    September 1, 2015

    (NEW YORK, NY, September 1, 2015) Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI has been chosen as the 2015-2016 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in Residence at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies.  

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  • Establishing Twitter as a Public Health Tool

    July 29, 2015

    This past June, Michelle Odlum, EdD, assistant professor and Sunmoo Yoon PhD, postdoctoral research scientist, published a story in American Journal of Infection Control which found that people in Nigeria were tweeting about Ebola’s arrival in their country three days before any official announcement from the Nigerian government or the World Health Organization.  

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  • Nursing Researchers Frame Health Care Agenda in Africa

    By Dean Bobbie Berkowitz
    July 29, 2015

    As a worldwide leader in nursing education, Columbia Nursing’s commitment to improving global health takes many forms. 

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  • Nursing Narratives

    By Andrea Kott
    July 28, 2015

    Writing about their clinical experiences helps students notice the small things that make a difference, says Churchill, which can play an important role in the healing process. 

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