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  • Infections Increase Death Risk by 35% for ICU Patients, Columbia Nursing Study Finds

    April 3, 2015

    Elderly patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) are about 35 percent more likely to die within five years of leaving the hospital if they develop an infection during their stay, a new Columbia Nursing study finds. 

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  • Mobile App with Evidence-Based Decision Support Diagnoses More Obesity, Smoking, and Depression, Columbia Nursing Study Finds

    April 3, 2015

    martphones and tablets may hold the key to getting more nurses to diagnose patients with chronic health issues like obesity, smoking, and depression -- three of the leading causes of preventable death and disability.

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  • Columbia Nursing and World Health Organization Partner to Expand Access to Care in Developing Nations

    April 1, 2015

    To help address the shortage of health providers that prevents universal access to care from becoming a global reality in many countries, Columbia University School of Nursing is continuing and expanding its work in global health as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Advanced Practice Nursing.

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  • Subverting Stigma: Giving Ethiopian Girls Tools to Stay in School During Menstruation

    March 18, 2015

    In Ethiopia, menstrual supplies are practically nonexistent. Rather than risk the embarrassment of bleeding through their clothes, many girls stay home from school during their cycle each month, causing them to fall behind in their studies and often drop out of school altogether.

    Girls2Women

  • All It Takes Is To Believe

    March 18, 2015

    Social professional events are opportunities to advance your career, acquire collaborators, or get a job. Three students from Columbia Nursing attended the New York Black Nurses Association (NYBNA) Annual Dinner Dance and Scholarship Gala and found it invaluable to both their academic and professional development. Columbia Nursing believes that attending professional events are critical to a student’s holistic development. In this post, the three students write about how the gala helped them to build networks, connect with nurse leaders, and feel fully inspired.

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  • Alumni Profile: Roxana Sasse, '92, DNP, '11

    March 12, 2015

    Roxana Sasse is a nurse anesthetist at the Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, Rhode Island.  She served as director of CUSON’s Alumni Association from 2000 to 2003 and two terms as its president from 2004-2010.

    Roxana Sasse, '92, DNP, '11

  • From the Dean: Columbia Nursing Moves to #11 in U.S. News & World Report's Nursing School Rankings

    March 12, 2015

    U.S. News & World Reports recently released the 2016 rankings of top graduate schools in the US. We are pleased that Columbia University School of Nursing has moved from 21st to 11th; placing us within the top 15 schools of nursing in the nation. In addition, five of the Columbia Nursing specialty programs are ranked among the top ten in the nation. 

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  • Keeping the Dialogue Open on Vaccines

    March 12, 2015

    Rita John has four decades of pediatric primary care experience and has worked as a nurse practitioner in the emergency department, private practice and in a nephrology clinic.

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  • Nurses Shape Policy with Eye on the Bedside

    March 12, 2015

    The knowledge and experience nurses gain from their day-to-day work makes them experts who are uniquely qualified to shape debate on health policy and public health.

  • Celebrating a Half Century

    March 12, 2015

    In 1963, the first thing Sarah Sheets Cook did when she finished her nursing shift at the Children’s Hospital, was look for her starched white cap which she took off at the beginning of her shift.

    Carol Stilley, ’63

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