The city of DeKalb has recently added parking restrictions to the streets around the School of Nursing building at 1240 Normal Rd. These changes affect students and visitors. Please visit NIU’s city parking ordinances for maps and details.
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Health Professions House looks back on a successful year
NIU’s Health Professions House, a living learning community in the Stevenson A Tower residence hall, has had an active year. Residents, who all share interests in health and service-related majors and careers, participated in several events, field trips and study sessions. Read
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Student groups tend community garden
Two NIU School of Nursing student groups pitched in to help at NIU Cares Day recently. The Northern Prairie Alliance (a chapter of the American Association of Men in Nursing) and the Student Nurses Organization (SNO) both rallied their members to join the
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Nursing students volunteer to screen high schoolers for cardiac issues
Recently, NIU nursing students volunteered to provide early screening for potential cardiac conditions in high school students. The NIU School of Nursing’s Northern Prairie Alliance, a chapter of the American Association of Men in Nursing (AAMN) organized the screenings. The Young Hearts
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School of Nursing hosts students from Japan
ELS, an intensive language training institute, with a branch on NIU’s campus, hosted a group of 20 students from the University of Kumamoto in Japan during the month of March. As part of their visit and studies, the NIU School of Nursing
Read moreInterprofessional Case Study event a success
Over 260 students from several area universities and healthcare groups recently participated in an Interprofessional Case Study event here. Led by School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders Chair Sherrill Morris, and School of Health Studies Dietetics Intern Coordinator Nancy Prange, students studied
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Nursing alumna takes her skills overseas
Angela Spahr, ’13, recently participated in her second medical mission to Haiti. She traveled with a healthcare team as part of CHAMPS: Connecting Hope and Medicine to People in Haiti. They create rural clinics and provide medical care to Haitians in Croix
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Nursing student elected to state position
The Student Nurses Association of Illinois (SNAI) is a state-wide organization of student nurses and is dedicated to fostering the professional development of nursing students. It was founded in 1950 and is associated with the National Student Nurses Association. The SNAI Board
Read more NCLEX pass rates exceed national average
The results are in: Graduates from the NIU School of Nursing have a 93 percent first-time pass rate on the NCLEX, the national licensure exam. These results for the 2017 reflect an increase over 2016. “The pass rate is a continuing trend that
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A Northern Nurse success story: Keeping the faith
M.S. in Nursing graduate Maria Vanessa Simoy Mabazza was featured in NIU President Lisa Freeman’s Graduate School Commencement address December 2017. Maria Vanessa Simoy Mabazza is one of those rare people who actually like being in the hospital. As a young child,
Read moreNurse practitioner alumnus welcomed into International Nurses Association
Scott J. Davis, FNP (’10), will be featured in the upcoming International Nurses Association’s publication, Worldwide Leaders in Healthcare. Davis is a family nurse practitioner with Northwestern Medicine in Sandwich, Illinois. Read the news release.
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Kishwaukee College and NIU announce nursing agreement
Kishwaukee College and Northern Illinois University recently expanded their academic partnership, announcing a new degree completion option for the Associate Degree Nursing program at Kishwaukee and the Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science Completion Program at NIU. The agreement will be formally
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