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.
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.
Policy Review reveals obstacles to access less costly, life-saving drugs for patients in the U.S.
December 3, 2020
Researchers have developed the first report card on biosimilars for three blockbuster cancer drugs marketed by Genentech/Roche: Rituxan, Avastin and Herceptin. In a Policy Review in The Lancet Oncology, Y. Tony Yang, a professor at the George Washington University School of Nursing and Milken Institute School of Public Health, along with researchers at the University of South Carolina, the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, California, the Virginia Mason Cancer Institute and Saint Louis University School of Medicine, identify factors preventing the effective launch of oncology biosimilars in the United States, including the struggle to garner market share and fighting patent litigation lawsuits across the country. They also report inadequate rollouts for the first wave of oncology biosimilars for AMGEN’s supportive care cancer drugs Neupogen, Epogen and Neulasta.
5B Film Screening in honor of World AIDS Day
December 3, 2020
To commemorate World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, the GW School of Nursing and the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) partnered to screen the documentary film 5B. Focused on a nurse-run ward at San Francisco General Hospital this film follows the healthcare workers who cared for HIV AIDS patients at the height of the epidemic in the mid-1980s. The screening was followed by a panel discussion moderated by Nurse Historian Ella Curry. The panel consisted of nurses Allison Moed Paolercio and Cliff Morrison, who stood up and managed Ward 5B at San Francisco General Hospital. Joining them was one of the film’s directors, Brendan Gaul, and Dr. David Keepnews, professor of nursing at the GW School of Nursing and director of the D.N.P. program in Health Policy.
GW Veterans Seek New Ways to Serve Through Nursing
November 10, 2020
George Washington University School of Nursing student Tyler Wood said it was a desire to continue serving others that pushed him to pursue a career in nursing after completing his service as a combat medic in the United States Navy.
“This is Getting Old” — A Podcast with a Purpose
November 7, 2020
Melissa Batchelor, director of the Center for Aging, Health, and Humanities and a leader in geriatric nursing, is coming up with innovative ways to disseminate content on age-friendly systems within this field and beyond. Too often, nursing and aging issues are considered to be niche topics, not relevant to general health care research, education or policy. Both, however, are of extreme importance to the entire health care system, because “when things are age-friendly, they are friendly for everyone” — an idea that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light. So how has she been able to creatively disseminate her important messages? She has a podcast.
Duty Calls
November 7, 2020
If life were a movie, a grizzled Richard “Ric” Ricciardi would have been splitting firewood at the end of a long driveway when Department of Defense officials drove up and told him the world needed him to come back to work. It wasn’t that dramatic, but the DOD certainly caught Ricciardi off guard when it asked for his help to lead COVID-19 operations and public health response at General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.
GW Nursing faculty featured in video explaining the "Twindemic"
October 25, 2020
Dean Pamela Jeffries and Richard Ricciardi offer their expertise in a video by the Washington Post that explores the onset of a "twindemic." Watch the video on the Washington Post website.