Global Health & Medical Missions Program cultivates cultural competence among students
Nov 16, 2018
Cultural competence is rapidly becoming an essential skill for health-care providers in this increasingly globalized world. Not only do they need to communicate with and treat patients whose backgrounds and life experiences might be wildly divergen...
New elective gives nursing students hands-on experience in the perioperative environment
Nov 08, 2018
Though it is the surgeon who actually operates during surgery, it is the perioperative nurses who provide the care before, during, and after. Their many responsibilities include everything from assisting patients with their admission to the surgica...
UAH Nursing Faculty Recognized at ASNA Annual Convention
Oct 19, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Marsha Howell Adams, dean of UAH’s College of Nursing, and Dr. Azita Amiri, assistant professor of nursing, who were both honored at this year’s Alabama State Nurses Association’s Annual Convention. ...
Alabama’s bioscience industry buoyed by research universities like UAH
Oct 03, 2018
The nation’s bioscience industry is rapidly becoming an economic driver according to a recent report from the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, generating $2 trillion in annual economic impact and employing more than 1.74 million people. ...
UAH alum recalls fateful night of Las Vegas strip shooting
Oct 01, 2018
Dorothy "Dotti" Grillo (UAH DNP) will never forget Oct. 1, 2017. It was the night all hell broke loose in Las Vegas, NV. ...
UAH and UA introduce state’s first joint Nursing Science Ph.D. program
Aug 27, 2018
The College of Nursing at UAH and the Capstone College of Nursing at the University of Alabama (UA) are pleased to announce a brand-new joint Nursing Science Ph.D. program. Once it is implemented in the summer of 2019, it will be the first online N...
New elective gives students preview of the ups and downs of critical care transport nursing
Aug 14, 2018
If the idea of trying to save someone’s life isn’t panic-inducing enough, try doing it in mid-air with limited room to maneuver and the whir of helicopter blades drowning out any chance of direct communication. For Ron Bolen (MSN, RN, CCRN, CEN...
Family endows Edith "Edie" Ivey Memorial Scholarship for Nursing
Aug 09, 2018
The family of Edith “Edie” Ivey, an alumna of the College of Nursing at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has endowed a $125,000 nursing scholarship in her name. ...
UAH alums “paying it forward” with work in university’s EAP program
Aug 03, 2018
When Catherine Ryan-Hyde wrote the book, Pay It Forward, in 2000 little did she know the bestseller would still be setting trends nearly 20 years later. ...
NLN names UAH College of Nursing a 2018 Center of Excellence in Nursing Education
Jul 31, 2018
The College of Nursing at UAH was named a National League for Nursing (NLN) 2018 Center of Excellence in recognition of its efforts to promote the pedagogical expertise of faculty. In her congratulations to the 2018 class of NLN Centers of Excellen...
