Wegmans School of Nursing News
07/26/2012
Every day during Bills Training Camp at St. John Fisher College, students and staff from the Wegmans School of Nursing will be offering blood pressure screenings as part of the Greater Rochester Hypertension Initiative. A community-wide group consisting of the Rochester Business Alliance, the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency, and Fisher has joined forces to raise awareness of hypertension, diet and nutrition, and healthy habits.
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06/27/2012
St. John Fisher College is proud to announce that Dianne Cooney Miner, PhD, RN, CNRN, Dean of the Wegmans School of Nursing, has been selected as one of the 176 nurse leaders that will be inducted as Fellows during the American Academy of Nursing’s 39th Annual Meeting and Conference on October 13, 2012, in Washington, D.C. Composed of the nation’s top nurse researchers, policy makers, scholars, executives, educators, and practitioners, the 2012 cohort is the largest class of inductees yet.
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05/25/2012
From May 19-24, 2012, Dr. Diane Mick, Visiting Associate Professor in the Wegmans School of Nursing, took part in the National Teaching Institute (NTI) of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses in Orlando.
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05/25/2012
An unusually broad collaboration of health professionals from the greater Rochester area has been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help lead the nation’s assault on pain.
The effort is led by physicians and scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center and includes nurses, pharmacists, chiropractors, acupuncturists and others from St. John Fisher College in Pittsford and from the New York Chiropractic College based in Seneca Falls. It’s one of a handful of times that these institutions have come together to pool their considerable expertise to attract federal funds to tackle a worldwide problem.
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05/08/2012
On Thursday, May 3, the Wegmans School of Nursing held its Recognition and Hooding Ceremonies, with a crowd of about 700 people made up of students, their families and friends, faculty, and staff.
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04/18/2012
On Wednesday, April 11, Dr. Donald Bain held his third “Breakfast with the President” event – a session designed to bring updates and news about the College to different segments of the larger Rochester community – up close and personal.
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04/02/2012
When members of the St. John Fisher College Wegmans School of Nursing traveled to Kenya last year, not only did they provide free health care and health education to several communities, they also learned about issues that Kenyan females face in those communities.
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03/23/2012
St. John Fisher College recently announced that the Wegmans School of Nursing will offer an Online RN-to-BS in Nursing Program beginning this September.
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02/16/2012
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) recently reported back to the faculty of St. John Fisher College's Wegmans School of Nursing (WSoN) that 100 percent of the School's recent graduates passed the National Certification Exam for Nurse Practitioners.
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01/26/2012
Meredith Bailey, a 2007 graduate of the St. John Fisher College Wegmans School of Nursing, is back in school at Yale University working towards her master’s degree in adult psychology.
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