Nursing Archives

Nov 06, 2019
  • ECU News Services

College of Nursing annual Diversity Day focuses on cultural humility

The ECU College of Nursing’s annual Diversity Day event, held on Oct. 31, focused on the importance of cultural humility, being conscious of one’s own predispositions and being a lifelong...

Oct 07, 2019
  • Grady Dillon

Student: Liz Blumthal

Liz Blumthal wants to leave her legacy at East Carolina University while preparing to care for others. Blumthal, a junior from Suwannee, Georgia, is an Honors College student with a...

Oct 04, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU College of Nursing celebrates 122 student scholarships provided by generous donors

An annual scholarship reception at the ECU College of Nursing on Sept. 27 celebrated 122 students receiving nursing scholarships totaling $327,550 – all made possible through the generosity of donors....

Sep 27, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU faculty member joins leadership of National Nursing League

ECU faculty member Dr. Mark Hand has been elected to serve as a member of the National League for Nursing (NLN) Board of Governors for a three-year term beginning this...

Sep 23, 2019
  • Natalie Sayewich

NURSES ADDRESSING NEEDS

Thanks to new grant funding, graduates from several ECU College of Nursing departments will be poised to provide health care that makes a big difference in small communities. The four-year,...

Sep 11, 2019
  • ECU News Services

College of Nursing welcomes 124 future nurses with pin ceremony

The ECU College of Nursing welcomed 124 future nurses on Aug. 29 during the college’s biannual Lamp of Learning ceremony at the Brody School of Medicine. Family members and friends...

Aug 29, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Kovar, 9 ECU Nursing alumni named Distinguished Public Health Nurses

College of Nursing faculty member Dr. Cheryl Kovar has been named a Distinguished Public Health Nurse in North Carolina. Kovar, an assistant professor in the advanced nursing practice and education department,...

Aug 15, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU Nursing faculty member receives lung cancer research grant

East Carolina University College of Nursing faculty member Dr. LeeAnn Jarrett-Johnson was selected to receive one of five Lung Cancer Research Fellowship Grants awarded by the Lung Cancer Initiative of...

Jul 29, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU faculty member inducted as fellow of the AANP

Dr. Michelle Skipper, a nurse practitioner and director of the ECU College of Nursing’s doctor of nursing practice program was inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse...

Jun 24, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU Nursing professor appointed to FDA advisory committee

An ECU College of Nursing faculty member has been appointed to serve on a committee for the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the nation’s foremost authority on protecting public...