The Nurse Practitioner students will help treat patients in a Partners In Health Clinic. Follow along with their experiences in a running blog below. The University of Rhode Island College of Nursing is continuing its global outreach over the next two weeks as four students and two faculty members are traveling to Liberia to help […]
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Collaboration aims to educate students, improve health care in developing world When Ebola broke out in Liberia in 2014, more than 11,000 severely ill people sought treatment in one of the few medical clinics available. Health professionals were faced with the daunting task of trying to save thousands of people with a tiny staff of […]
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To increase awareness of the issue and help spur the change, URI Nursing Professor Betty Rambur is spearheading a series of webinars to enhance health care professionals’ knowledge of health system science and promote understanding of health system transformation concepts. The 50- to 90-minute programs — funded by a $119,000 grant from the state Executive […]
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Aidan Petrie to speak at NEC in Providence Feb. 21 at noon Nurses are at the front lines of health care and are key to improving patient care through transformation of health care systems. The need for user-centered innovation is paramount and nurses are in an ideal position to identify the need for novel solutions, […]
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Emely Baez aims to battle healthcare disparities around the world Emely Baez was in high school in Woonsocket, R.I. when she learned about the 1990s Rwandan genocide. A teacher who had traveled to the African nation told of the unimaginable tragedy and introduced Baez and her classmates to a Rwandan woman who had escaped her […]
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Colleges of nursing, pharmacy and health sciences collaborate on J-Term course URI students from across all three colleges in the Academic Health Collaborative got a firsthand look at health care overseas, helped educate residents on preventive health measures and experienced some of the local culture during a J-Term trip to Indonesia. Deans Gary Liguori (health […]
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The University of Rhode Island College of Nursing officially welcomed the class of 2020 into the field of professional nursing during a White Coat Ceremony in Edwards Auditorium on Jan. 22. The 80 nursing students crossed the stage to receive their white coats for the first time before Dean Barbara Wolfe led the class in […]
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The University of Rhode Island has appointed Mary Leveillee, who was chief nursing officer at Butler Hospital, to the position of associate dean of the College of Nursing.
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URI College of Nursing sponsors talk at R.I. NEC; students to visit clinic in Liberia At the height of the ebola crisis in West Africa in 2014, a young girl no older than two arrived at an Ebola Treatment Unit in Liberia organized by Partners in Health. The child’s entire family had succumbed to the […]
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URI College of Nursing hosts ‘the man who would cure the world’ Tuesday; some seats, live stream available The University of Rhode Island College of Nursing is offering a unique opportunity to hear from Dr. Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health at the Rhode Island Nursing Education Center on Dec. 12. Farmer, “the man who […]
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