2019 Arkansas Nursing Research Conference Date & Location Friday, April 12, 2019, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Jackson T. Stephens 12th Floor, Little Rock, AR Objectives Identify strategies to build successful collaborative teams in research and practice. Discuss the benefits of collaborative teams in research and practice. Examine research to inform health across the lifespan. Registration […]
Celebrating Years of Service
CONGRATULATIONS to the following CON family members who were honored this week for their service years to UAMS! Thank you for all you do!! Donna Middaugh: 30 years Lee Blackwood: 20 years Karan Cox: 20 years Patricia Wright: 20 years Sonya Henderson 15 years Pamela LaBorde: 15 years Leanne Lefler: 15 years Sandra Lubin: 15 […]
Tribute to Jane McGehee Wilson
Remembering UAMS Foundation Fund Board Lifetime Member Jane McGehee Wilson
Jean McSweeney, Ph.D, R.N. presented in Mountain Home on Women’s Cardiovascular Health
Dr. Jean McSweeney, Ph.D, R.N., professor and associate dean for research in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing and co-director of its Ph.D program recently spoke to a group in Mountain Home at Big Creek Country Club. McSweeney shared about how heart disease is the number 1 cause of death […]
Dalme-Rickel Distinguished Visiting Lectureship in Oncology/ Community Health
PhD Program Propelled Amy Hester to Success
It was 2008. Amy Hester had just begun her master’s program, but she already knew she would require something else — a PhD. Hester was manager of the neurology unit at UAMS and she and her team had noticed an issue with falls in the unit. Hester and her work colleague Dees Davis wanted […]
CON Focused on Mental Health Care Improvement
As depression and suicide rates continue to rise across the country, more health care providers and educators, including at the UAMS College of Nursing, are focused on doing more to address the problem. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Prevention show suicide rates increased by 30 percent in the U.S. between 1999 and 2016, […]
Save the Date – Final Defense – Brittany Beasley
Save the date for the 12th Annual APRN State Conference
UAMS Gets Nurse Anesthesia Specialty Program Approval
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received approval from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education for a Nurse Anesthesia specialty in the College of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.) program.