Dr. Janice Beitz and Dr. Claudia Beckman have completed a study on academic bullying in nursing and health profession schools.
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Family engagement in care for intensive care unit (ICU) patients is essential to ensure patient and family-centered clinical outcomes. However, family engagement remains a challenging and inconsistent practice and an understudied area of nursing science in this population.
Congressman Donald Norcross has issued a Congressional Proclamation naming May 2020 National Nurses Month in celebration of the nursing profession.
There is a persistent salary gap within the nursing workforce. It is both harmful and discriminatory. The job of the professional nurse regardless of health care setting is the same but the pay is different. Why the salary gap when male and female nurses are doing the same job? The answer seems to be gender. Donna M. Nickitas, dean of the Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden, calls for closing the gender pay gap in nursing in a recent op-ed she contributed to the journal Nursing Economic$.
"Everyone should get a flu shot. The best thing is to not get it, so getting the vaccine is the most important thing and it's not too late still to get the vaccine," advises Dr. Katherine Prihoda, a clinical assistant professor with the Rutgers School of Nursing—Camden. "If you do get the flu the best thing is to stay home."
Jeanann Sousou Coppola, a clinical assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden, will be inducted into the ACNM at the organization’s annual meeting in May.
Nationally respected doctor and scholar Dr. George C. Hill CCAS'61, a graduate of Camden High School and of Rutgers University–Camden, led a discussion about how the history of scientific mistreatment of Black people by the medical community is impacting desires to receive the COVID-19 vaccinations. Camden Mayor Frank Moran offered introductory comments at the start of the event. A Q&A with Dr. Hill, featuring Dr. Jubril Oyeyemi, medical director of care management initiatives at the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and moderated by our faculty member Dr. Tyshaneka Saffold, a clinical instructor of nursing at Rutgers–Camden, followed the talk.
Sangita Pudasainee-Kapri knew at a young age that she wanted to pursue a caregiving profession.
Meet Karina DeCasablanca, an undergraduate nursing student at the Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden and Heritage Speaker of Spanish, who recently answered five questions asked by Lead with Languages, a national campaign aimed at making language proficiency a national priority. As an aspiring air force nurse or nurse anesthetist, and translator, Karina has seen first-hand the impact that her language skills can have in providing care and assistance to those without English proficiency.
Strengthening Rutgers University–Camden’s role as a regional leader in health care and the sciences, the 107,000-square-foot Nursing and Science Building, located at Fifth and Federal Sts. in Camden, has opened.
The Rutgers School of Nursing—Camden was acknowledged for its support of military employees by the New Jersey Committee of the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) at its recent annual awards ceremony in Hamilton, N.J. The ESGR is a Department of Defense program that seeks to foster a culture in which all employers value the military service of employee members of the National Guard and Reserve in the United States. The School of Nursing—Camden, which received a certificate of recognition as an employer that supports veterans, was nominated for the honor by Kevin R. Emmons, a U.S. Army Reserve captain and a clinical assistant professor with the school.