News Archive
With as many students and faculty active in education, practice, policy and research as we have at GW Nursing, it can be difficult to capture all of their stories. These are just some examples of the work going on here — work done by dedicated students and top-tier faculty alike — that help this school continue to grow and flourish.
Vaccine 101 Webinar Delivers Current Information
March 9, 2021
GW experts discussed the various COVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use and how to chip away at vaccine hesitancy among your friends and family. Researchers, clinicians, and deans from the Milken Institute School of Public Health, the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the School of Nursing spoke to the GW community last Tuesday as part of a discussion on COVID-19 vaccines—what the differences are between them, why they are safe, and why social distancing and masking remains critical post-shot. The webinar recording can be found here. Visit coronavirus.gwu.edu for up-to-date information.
Newsweek Features Op-ed by Dr. Mason and Colleagues
March 5, 2021
Dr. Diana J. Mason and colleagues discuss how SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is "novel" in many ways. Health care professionals are learning more about how it acts, how to protect people from infection and how to treat it when patients are seriously ill. The results of having to respond quickly, at times without sufficient information, have occasionally led to missteps. Click the link below to read Dr. Mason's op-ed, "End Restrictive Family Visiting Policies in Hospitals, Nursing Homes", featured on Newsweek.com
Student pass rates soar on NCLEX and NP certification exams
February 10, 2021
GW Nursing Faculty Volunteer to Help Fight COVID-19
Faculty members give time to local government health departments through the Medical Reserve Corps.
February 6, 2021
The face of beleaguered health care workers and nurses in crowded hospital wards decked in protective clothing has become a stock image from the frontlines of the pandemic—an image that can evoke discomforting emotions for nursing instructors, a feeling of not being where they should be.
Obtaining Clinical Hours for Students during the Pandemic: Creative Solutions -- Virginia Nurses Today
Jeffries, P., Cox, C., Dawn, K., Drenkard, K., Slaven-Lee, P., Tanner, J., and Wiersma, G.
February 5, 2021
Beginning in March 2020, nurse educators were abruptly slammed with unprecedented clinical education disruption due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Academic leaders had to pivot as lockdowns and restrictions were enacted, and they began to work with an all-remote faculty and staff workforce to provide instructional and business continuity in our nursing schools. Students were rapidly required to move to virtual learning platforms, foregoing the face-to-face instruction they had originally expected when applying to nursing school.
Helene Fuld Health Trust Awards GW Nursing Grant to Fund B.S.N. Student Scholarships
January 4, 2021
The School of Nursing was awarded a $600,000 grant from the Helene Fuld Health Trust, the nation’s largest funder devoted exclusively to nursing students and nursing education, to support scholarships for students in the Accelerated B.S.N Program. The award provides a combination of funds for an endowment for scholarships along with three years of current-use scholarship support.
Nursing Media Summit Draws Lively Exchange
December 23, 2020
On December 10, the GW School of Nursing’s Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, Sigma Theta Tau International (the nursing honor society), and the University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Nursing co-hosted their second annual Media Summit for Nursing Organizations.
GW Nursing and NAHQ Commit to Advancing Health Care Quality Competency
December 17, 2020
Nursing Professor Appointed to Prestigious Fellowship
December 15, 2020
GW Nursing Research Seeks to Reduce Disparities in Maternal Mortality
December 5, 2020
A pair of George Washington University School of Nursing researchers were recently awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to study maternal mortality, a public health crisis with stark racial disparities, in Washington, D.C. The project will focus on the fathers' role and involvement in pregnancy and postpartum care, and their impact on prenatal care, maternal and infant health.
GW Nursing’s Karen Drenkard Receives 2020 Year of the Nurse Award
December 5, 2020
George Washington University School of Nursing Associate Dean of Clinical Practice and Community Engagement Karen Drenkard has been awarded the 2020 Year of the Nurse Award by the Virginia Nurses Foundation. Dr. Drenkard is one of 20 nurses across the commonwealth to receive this recognition during an unprecedented year in the nursing profession.