Nursing Archives

Sep 19, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU College of Nursing welcomes new students at Lamp of Learning ceremony

The ECU College of Nursing welcomed 122 future nurses on Sept. 6 during a ceremony at the Brody School of Medicine. Parents beamed while their daughters and sons crossed the...

The new Goshen Medical Center mobile medical van will transport health care providers and medical equipment to provide care in remote areas of eastern North Carolina. (Photo by Matt Smith)
Sep 10, 2018
  • Natalie Sayewich

FOURTH YEAR GRANTED

A fourth year of funding for ECU’s Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) will mean new ways for seniors in eastern North Carolina to access health care. GWEP, initially funded by...

Jul 31, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU Physicians nurse practitioner earns dermatology certification

A nurse practitioner with ECU Physicians has earned a certification in dermatology. Erin McGillicuddy Hurd has been awarded the Dermatology Certified Nurse Practitioner (DCNP) designation by the Dermatology Nursing Certification...

Jul 30, 2018
  • Bri Deel

Student: Katelyn Kincer

Katelyn Kincer, a rising senior in the Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses (RIBN) program at East Carolina University, is at the top of her class. “Katelyn has been an amazing student...

Jul 25, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Boys & Girls Club members explore nursing at ECU

A group of middle school and high school students from the Farmville Boys & Girls Club paid a visit to the ECU College of Nursing Thursday, July 19, to learn...

Jul 24, 2018
  • ECU News Services

After wife’s death, professor creates nursing scholarship in her name

Dr. Tom Irons keeps a voicemail on his phone of his wife laughing. It’s just a short giggle in an otherwise mundane message, but her laugh is one of the...

Jun 05, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

NURSING EXCELLENCE

A nurse manager in adult and pediatric health care has been selected by her peers as the 2018 Nurse of the Year at ECU Physicians, the medical practice of the...

May 30, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU names interim vice chancellor for health sciences

ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton announced today that he has named an interim vice chancellor for the university’s Division of Health Sciences. Dr. Mark Stacy, dean of ECU’s Brody School of...

ECU Pirates cut their hair to raise money for pediatric cancer research during the 2018 Pirates Vs. Cancer event. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 16, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

PIRATES VS. CANCER

Music from a live band pumped through speakers outside of ECU’S Health Sciences Student Center on Friday afternoon, as gusting winds provided relief from the eastern North Carolina springtime heat...

Apr 04, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

IMPROVING PATIENT COMMUNICATION

East Carolina University students interested in careers in health care will soon have a new tool to help them better communicate with Spanish-speaking patients, a rapidly increasing segment of the...