“As nurses, we know a diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria—a disconnect between the gender a person identifies as and the gender assigned at birth—can be very distressing,” Smothers said. “This training is a way to build supportive communities for our gender diverse friends.”
For an assignment in NSG-710, Kristen Cottrill, a CNRA student, wrote an opinion-editorial piece, Nurses face problem of workplace violence, which was published last week by the Charleston Gazette-Mail.
Speaking on the theme “What’s Next?,” West Virginia University Health Sciences Chancellor and Executive Dean Dr. Clay Marsh recently took the stage at TEDxWVU.
Cathy Camden, senior academic advisor in the School of Nursing, has been named one of the 2022 recipients of the Nicholas Evans Professional Staff Advising Excellence Award.
For an assignment in NSG-710, Jamie Hanna, a CNRA student, wrote an opinion-editorial piece, Can tax credits help WV's nursing shortage?, which was published last week by the Charleston Gazette-Mail.
An article on providing palliative care to patients with advanced dementia written by West Virginia University Section Chief of Geriatric, Palliative Medicine and Hospice and Grace Kinney Mead Chair of Geriatrics R. Osvaldo Navia, M.D. and West Virginia University Clinical Associate Professor in the WVU School of Nursing and Nurse Practitioner at the WVU School of Nursing and WVU School of Medicine Lori Anne Constantine, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, ACHPN, was recently published in the March issue of Nursing 2022.
Graduate students in the West Virginia University School of Nursing’s Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program will benefit from a new scholarship established by alumna and longtime dean E. Jane Martin. Martin contributed $100,000 to create the namesake scholarship, which will be awarded to nurse practitioners pursuing a post-master’s certificate in psychiatric mental health.
Survey Says! — The West Virginia University Student Nurses Association’s Family Feud event was a huge success, welcoming more than 150 attendees and raising $1,900 for MUSHROOM (Multidisciplinary UnSheltered Homeless Relief Outreach Of Morgantown).
A WVU School of Nursing graduate student and Ukraine native is leading an effort at WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital to donate medical supplies to her home country.
WVU School of Nursing Keyser Campus students are supporting local high school student Alyson Smith’s community service project to provide gift bags to cancer patients at Potomac Valley Hospital’s new Cancer Center.