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College of Nursing Announces LINE Fund Scholarship Recipients

The 40 UF Accelerated BSN students selected for the Linking Industry to Nursing Education, or LINE Fund scholarships, were recently announced.The LINE Fund program was established in 2022 by the Florida Legislature to help alleviate the state’s nursing shortage. ABSN students are not eligible for traditional scholarships…

UF Nursing’s Hwayoung Cho Receives $500,000 NIH Award

UF College of Nursing faculty member Hwayoung Cho, PhD, recently received an NIH grant for more than $500,000 for a four-year study examining disparities in the risk of dementia among people living with HIV aged 50 and older. The study aims to develop an early warning system to identify those at high…

Community Projects Expose Nursing Students to Deeper Patient Needs

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…

Gator Nurse mom honors daughter during nursing pinning ceremony

On Aug. 9, Anastasia Albanese-O’Neill, B.S.N., M.S.N., Ph.D., a three-time UF Gator Nurse graduate, got the rare honor of pinning her daughter, Cassidy O’Neill, as Cassidy also graduated as a Gator Nurse during the Summer 2024 College of Nursing Pinning Ceremony. Pinning is a traditional ceremony that symbolically welcomes graduating…

New AI tool predicts risk for chronic pain in cancer patients

 UF College of Nursing faculty member Lisiane Pruinelli, PhD., M.S., R.N., FAMIA, published a study on using AI to predict which breast cancer patients are most at risk for developing chronic pain. The study published on July 26 in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship.

UF Nursing’s Hwayoung Cho Receives almost $700,000 NIH Grant

UF Nursing faculty member Hwayoung Cho, PhD, recently received a multiyear National Institutes of Health grant. UF College of Nursing faculty member Hwayoung Cho, PhD, along with Yiyang Liu, MPH, PhD, of the College of Public Health and Health Professions, recently received a $683,625 NIH grant for a three-year study into…

Two UF Nursing PhD Students Chosen as Jonas Scholars

UF College of Nursing PhD students Magali Rezende de Carvalho, MSN, APRN, and Hyehwan Yang, MSN, APRN, were recently selected as Jonas Scholars UF College of Nursing PhD students Magali Rezende de Carvalho, MSN, APRN, and Hyehwan Yang, MSN, APRN, were recently selected as Jonas Scholars for the 2024-2026 cohort…

UF Nursing Backed Demonstration Project Receives International Attention

Randy Brian, left, Sandra Citty and Cindy Westbrook look over wound care products at UF Health Shands Hospital recently. The three were part of a research project funded by UF Health and the UF College of Nursing to study wound care treatments for ECMO sites that have saved lives. In…