She won Jacksonville University’s top mathematics scholarship in 2015, was named its Woman Student of the Year in 2016 and earned its highest academic honor in 2017. Now spring graduate Savannah Bates has gone national, winning the prestigious Phi Kappa …
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Jacksonville University to become smoke-free Aug. 7
Jacksonville University will become a smoke-free campus effective Aug. 7, prohibiting all lighted tobacco products on all property owned, operated, leased, occupied or controlled by the University.
“At JU, we believe a healthy campus is a dynamic, productive campus, and …
Read More »HEALTHY LIFE: Pregnant women at higher risk for zika
When people think of the Zika virus, they usually think of mosquitoes. Their bite is, after all, the primary mode of transmission of the disease. However, it’s important to know that this virus, first reported in the U.S. in 2015, …
Read More »Path to better patient safety leads through new Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Institute Regional Center at Jacksonville University
The call to action came in 1999, when the Institute of Medicine issued its “To Err Is Human” report estimating that as many as 98,000 people were dying annually from preventable medical errors. Urged on by an alarmed public, the …
Read More »Faculty honored for innovation, commitment with ‘Great 100 Nurses’ awards
Lindsay Wolf brings her daughters ages 1, 3 and 4 to school so her graduate pediatrics students have real-world patients to examine and learn from.
Dennis Oakes uses online gaming and interactive exercises to keep his Nursing students engaged in …
Read More »National experts to discuss patient safety challenges and trends June 9 at inaugural Patient Safety Forum at Jacksonville University
The first statewide/regional conference bringing together hundreds of health care leaders, nurses, physicians and students to hear from renowned experts on patient safety is set for Friday, June 9, at Jacksonville University.
The Patient Safety Forum also celebrates the formal …
Silver Level “Exercise Is Medicine” status puts campus in elite company nationally
Jacksonville University joins only 20 other U.S. higher education campuses that have earned Silver Level status from the Exercise Is Medicine on Campus global health movement.
Last year, the campus was presented Bronze Level status by movement founder Dr. Bob …
Read More »Keigwin School of Nursing preparing students to conquer stress – before and after graduating
Stress in the nursing profession has become such a norm that there’s even a special term for it: Nursing Burnout Syndrome.
The findings are a bit daunting: in one survey at the University of Colorado Hospital, nearly nine out of …
Read More »‘I felt the children were like dry soil, looking for a drop of water’ – Dr. Sawsan Tabbaa helps children including Syrian refugees in Florida’s largest ‘Give Kids A Smile’ effort
Dr. Sawsan Tabbaa will never forget a child named Ahmad.
The JU School of Orthodontics Clinical Associate Professor was handing out free Give Kids A Smile dental kits containing toothpaste, toothbrushes and instruction cards to 300 Syrian refugee children at …
Read More »HEALTHY LIFE: Patient safety & over-the-counter medications
With the marketing of drugs in mass media, lack of time for appointments and rising costs of health insurance, use of over-the-counter or “OTC” medications for self-treatment is on the rise.
The National Library of Medicine states on its website …
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