News: School of Nursing


Nursing professor addresses both physical and psychological aspects of losing weight.

Preventing injuries an important issue for nurse retention.

Success of foreign-trained nurses boosted through communication skills training.

Nursing professor hopes to prevent burnout in people caring for sick or elderly relatives.


Increasing the number of graduates is still a priority, but 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s School of Nursing also seeks to build its research and enhance understanding of the endeavor.


51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ fall-prevention and safety training program targets the local construction workforce and Latino workers, a group that suffers disproportionately from workplace injury and death.
Increasing the number of graduates is still a priority, but 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s School of Nursing also seeks to build its research and enhance understanding of the endeavor.

Designed to encourage faculty collaboration and acquisition of external grant funding, the President’s Research Award has also sparked intriguing research projects on subjects ranging from nanotechnology to volcanoes.