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.

Professor Ricciardi Inducted as Sigma President

November 21, 2019

Professor Richard Ricciardi was inducted today as president of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) during the organization’s biennial convention in National Harbor, Maryland.

Experiencing Universal health Care in Costa Rica

November 16, 2019

Costa Rica has seven provinces. I was fortunate to experience three. One week was not enough time in the capital, San Jose, but our time there offered an incredible opportunity to immerse ourselves in the culture and to study the country’s universal health care system.

Faculty Awarded Funding for Breast Cancer Follow-Up Care Study

November 14, 2019

New Doctoral Program Aims to Prepare Nursing Researchers

November 14, 2019

Nurses comprise the largest group of health care providers in the country, so discoveries made in nursing science can have a large-scale impact on the quality of patient care, said Kathleen Griffith, Ph.D., M.P.H., CRNP-F.

Underserved But Deserving of Care

November 14, 2019

Faculty Awarded $1.5 Million Grant to Reduce Liver Disease Incidence

November 14, 2019

Nurse, Lawyer, Professor.

November 14, 2019

Nursing came first for David Keepnews, who now has an alphabet of credentials behind his name: Ph.D., J.D., M.P.H., RN, NEA-BC, FAAN. He was working in San Francisco as a psychiatric mental health nurse in the early 1980s when a bureaucratic shift shaped the course of his career.