Nursing Archives

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Feb 06, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Awaken Coffee expands to ECU: Empowering the differently abled, one cup at a time

As of Feb. 3, the East Carolina University Health Sciences Campus is fully caffeinated again. Awaken Coffee, which offers premium coffee brewed and served by members of the greater Greenville...

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Jan 31, 2025
  • Ken Buday

ECU Excels celebrates successes of freshmen, transfer students

Kinley Nance showed up at East Carolina University in the fall not knowing what to expect. The freshman from Chadbourn was nearly three hours from home, living on her own...

Jan 29, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Heath care students learn to learn from one another

In the 1980s, health care educators began to rethink how health sciences students, including future doctors, nurses, physical therapists and their allied health peers, should learn their jobs. Interprofessional education,...

Jan 22, 2025
  • Crystal Baity

Online masters’ programs in nursing, criminal justice, education and business lead rankings

East Carolina University’s College of Nursing is the No. 1 online master’s program for public universities in North Carolina and is in the top 10 nationwide in a new ranking...

Jan 22, 2025
  • Crystal Baity
  • Shelby Hudnall

Treasured Pirates, longtime employees honored at recognition ceremony

East Carolina University’s 2024 Treasured Pirates and employees who have achieved 30 or more years of state service were recognized in a ceremony at Harvey Hall on Jan. 13, the...

Three women in black graduation regalia pose with a group of women and men behind them in purple graduation attire.
Jan 21, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Nursing faculty graduate with students as DNPs

Three of East Carolina University’s College of Nursing RN to BSN faculty members switched roles for the fall 2024 graduation ceremony — turning their own tassels to become some of...

Jan 15, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Nursing students learn to balance language translation with legal rules

Members of the health care work force are presented with a dizzying array of challenges in treating patients. Bilingual nurses, doctors and allied health professionals have an additional layer of...

Dec 11, 2024
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Hands-on experience gives high schoolers a look at their health sciences education

Success stories start as dreams we harbor in our youth. Career days such as the third Future Health Professionals Conference Nov. 23 help fill in the critical details that make...

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Dec 05, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Grad Profiles: Fall 2024

A group of Pirates who began their journey at East Carolina University at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic will now part ways to pursue careers that fulfill ECU’s motto—Servire,...

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Dec 04, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Pirate nurse selected for prestigious White House Fellows program

Dr. Michael Kennedy, a Pirate acute care nurse practitioner from Morehead City, was announced Oct. 3 as a member of the 2024-25 class of White House Fellows, an incredibly rare...