Benjamin Abel Archives

Sep 26, 2024
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Pirate nurse alumna leads health care change in Moldova

Alumna Hilary Mendel had a plan to change the world when she arrived at East Carolina University in 2006. The Pirate nurse has seen that vision through, using her nursing...

Sep 11, 2024
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Pirate Nurse takes flight over eastern NC to save lives

As a boy, Hunter Venters walked the fields of his family’s farms near Chicod in southern Pitt County. From time-to-time small planes would fly overhead. Venters doesn’t remember wanting to...

Sep 05, 2024
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ECU’s Nursing Education program trains faculty for community college programs

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention make no bones about the schism in health care outcomes between urban and rural parts of the nation: “rural Americans are more likely...

Aug 30, 2024
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Soccer success translates to nursing promise

When she joins the team at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore, East Carolina University graduate and nurse Rachael Wilsynski will have a lifetime of high-level experience with teamwork...

Aug 27, 2024
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ECU national finalist, one of four regional winners of W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Award

GREENVILLE, N.C. (8/22/2024) — East Carolina University is one of four national universities recognized for extraordinary community engagement initiatives and named a regional winner of the 2024 W.K. Kellogg Foundation...

Aug 13, 2024
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ECU and ECU Health partner on new nursing program to expand acute care workforce in North Carolina

GREENVILLE, N.C. (08/12/2024) — East Carolina University’s College of Nursing and ECU Health are launching an Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program, a new graduate-level certificate program that will...

Aug 12, 2024
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Nurse extern program gives students real-life experiences before graduation

The summer break was no break for more than two dozen East Carolina University College of Nursing students who got to see what their post-graduation life could be like with...

Aug 07, 2024
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Grant provides training for needed older adult care

East Carolina University’s College of Nursing has been awarded a $900,000, multi-year contract to help educate and train members of the regional health care workforce to more effectively care for...

Jul 30, 2024
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Nursing students visit Guatemala to expand cultural understanding

Sometimes the best way to understand how to care for those who are outside of the mainstream, those who aren’t privileged in a society, is to learn how to communicate...

Jul 29, 2024
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College of Nursing to expand undergraduate program with state funding 

East Carolina University’s College of Nursing has received a significant investment of $3 million from the state of North Carolina to increase the number of entry-to-practice nurses who graduate from the...