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SON Dean Waite Earns Lifetime Achievement Award

SON Dean Waite Earns Lifetime Achievement Award

By Pallavi Bommareddy August 30, 2023

Roberta Waite, dean of the Georgetown University School of Nursing (SON), received the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) at their 51st Annual Institute...

DC Sees Significant Nursing Shortages Throughout Hospitals

DC Sees Significant Nursing Shortages Throughout Hospitals

By Venetia Smith October 6, 2022

Washington, D.C., is experiencing a nursing shortage that is heavily impacting the healthcare system as hospitals struggle to maintain necessary staff levels to care for patients. The District of Columbia...

SHEEL PATEL/THE HOYA The School of Nursing and Health Studies will be designated as a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education for 2018 through 2022. The National League of Nursing recognition is for the NHS’ dedication to enhancing student learning and professional development. The recognition ceremony is Sept. 14 at the NLN’s 2018 Education Summit in Chicago.

NHS Honored as Center of Excellence in Nursing Education

By Katrina Schmidt September 14, 2018

The School of Nursing and Health Studies is being recognized as a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education by the National League for Nursing in a ceremony in Chicago on Sept. 14. The departments...

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, delivered Saturdays commencement address for the School of Nursing and Health Sciences.

Johnson Urges Commitment to Service in Address to NHS Graduates

By Katrina Schmidt May 24, 2018

Luci Baines Johnson, the daughter of President Lyndon Johnson and founder of LBJ Family Wealth Advisors, a family-owned wealth management firm, urged School of Nursing and Health Studies graduates...

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Passion and Humility Within Our Peers

By Nicholas Dellasanta May 20, 2016

Ite, inflammate omnia — go forth and set the world on fire. An often-heard phrase at a Jesuit school, these are the words St. Ignatius of Loyola used to encourage the Jesuits in their global mission,...

COURTESY EDILMA YEARWOOD
Edilma Yearwood will serve as the president of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses after training for a year as the president-elect and will help the ISPN advance its mission to better understand mental health.

NHS Chair Selected as Society President

By Lucy Pash April 17, 2015

School of Nursing and Health Studies Interim Nursing Chair Edilma Yearwood was elected president of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses in late March. Yearwood will serve...

MHIC Celebrates 5th Anniversary

By Toby Hung January 23, 2015

The Minority Health Initiative Council, a student-led group in the School of Nursing and Health Studies dedicated to minority students pursuing studies in health and minority health issues, celebrated...

A Timeless Mission, An Archaic Name

By Marnie Klein January 14, 2014

I love being in the School of Nursing and Health Studies. Its small class sizes, student-faculty interaction and research opportunities are unparalleled in the Georgetown community. While I am proud of...

Online Nursing Enrollment Grows

By Elizabeth Garbitelli October 18, 2011

With the School of Nursing and Health Studies' Nursing @ Georgetown program, master's nursing students learn the profession with experts from the Hilltop community from the comfort of their own homes. The...

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