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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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 moreCHHS faculty are participating in several NIU summer camps, including the new Fashion Studio camp for high schoolers interested in fashion merchandising. Read about it in NIUToday.
Read moreOver 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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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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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
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The NIU Rehabilitation and Disabilities Services and Rehabilitation Counseling program faculty are looking for participants for their research on the impact of a job readiness training intervention to support the job search process. Study participants will receive $50. “When searching for work,
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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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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 moreScott 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 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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Associate Professor of Nursing Jie Chen has been named a Nurse Educator Fellow by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. She becomes one of 19 distinguished educators selected from across the state. She joins a select group of only 149 Nurse Educator
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