One of the things that impacted Mary Curley the most during her UF Nursing community project, was when the Accelerated BSN student felt first-hand the trust patients bestow on nurses. Curley was part of a group that partnered with the Gainesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Geriatric Research Education…
Courtney Rodriguez-Cayro, a UF Health nurse and UF College of Nursing Doctor of Nursing Practice student, believed lax patient oral hygiene standards were responsible for an increase in cases of pneumonia. A study she helped design setting formal oral care protocols in one unit, saw a drop in cases and…
UF College of Nursing students may have noticed few familiar faces at the Student Health Care Center on campus this semester. Thanks to a collaboration between UF College of Nursing faculty and the UF SHCC, nursing faculty now serve as providers at the clinic during the busy fall and spring…
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tamara Macieira, PhD, RN, R. Murray And Annabel Davis Jenks Endowed Professor, Gail Keenan, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Research Associate Professor Yingwei Yao, PhD, for receiving funding for the R33 phase of their study, “Harmonizing and Integrating Nursing Data into Multidisciplinary Datasets to Evaluate Hospital Care…
Thanks to new research from the University of Florida College of Nursing, first-year nurses may receive a helping hand.
As part of a new initiative, UF Health Shands nurses have the opportunity to collaborate with College of Nursing faculty, as well as other bedside nurses, to produce funded research projects. From developing new ways to communicate with patients to testing treatment protocols or running research trials in the hospital,…
When diagnostic tests for the heart were first created, scientists at the time did not fully consider that no two bodies are the same, especially between the sexes. According to University of Florida College of Nursing associate professor Jennifer Dungan, Ph.D., M.S.N., B.S.N, many of the current symptom…
Since spring 2020, nurses across the globe have carried the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic on their tired shoulders, facing unimaginably challenging work environments that have ended with many leaving the profession. On an Academic Partnership Unit, student nurses have the opportunity to learn how to be an effective clinician…
The College of Nursing’s gift of the Linda Harman Aiken Chair, as well as the Thomas M. and Irene B. Kirbo Innovation and Learning Lab were featured in two WCJB TV20 segments. BSN senior Natalie Geltman and Dean Anna McDaniel, PhD, RN, FAAN, explained how college-wide innovation is addressing…
UF Health Archer Family Health Care, the college’s nurse-led health center, has provided care to the local community for two decades. Listen to the below From Florida episode, a podcast focused on groundbreaking innovations at UF, to hear Dean Anna McDaniel, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Clinical Director Denise Schentrup, APRN,…
