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Statement on tragic passing of nursing student Jesse Averitt

Mar 5, 2021

PIctured above: Jesse Averitt Statement from Dean Janie Heath on the tragic passing of University of Kentucky College of Nursing student Jess Averitt on March 4, 2021.

College of Nursing's COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts

Feb 25, 2021

Proudly Vaccinating Kentuckians The University of Kentucky College of Nursing is proud to be a part of UK and UK HealthCare's community COVID-19 vaccination efforts. The College's leadership team, faculty, staff and students have all played an integral role in supporting and staffing the Kroger Field Vaccine Clinic-- volunteering to serve as immunizers, dosers, dose runners, wayfinders and more.

Mental Health Resilience: How one student's letter sparked university-wide change in addressing mental health

Feb 24, 2021

Cara Braido, BSN 2019 A cascade of personal events had College of Nursing student Cara Braido feeling emotionally raw in her final term. In a span of a few months, her parents decided to divorce and a sibling was physically assaulted. These events hit Braido while she was still recovering from the suicide attempt of another sibling a few years earlier.

Dr. Camille Burnett: Shaping the Future of Nursing

Feb 20, 2021

Dr. Camille Burnett hopes that in four years nursing schools will be graduating students who view the field through a wider lens and a longer scope. Today’s graduates, she says, are well equipped with clinical skills but should also be well trained as advocates, policymakers, and reformers prepared to shape the future of not only nursing but of public health and social justice, as well.

UK Nursing Researchers Study the Delivery of Tobacco Treatment to Medicaid Recipients

Feb 15, 2021

Nurse researchers from the University of Kentucky College of Nursing’s Bridging Research Efforts and Advocacy Toward Healthy Environments (BREATHE) recommend practical strategies for enhancing the delivery of tobacco treatment services to Kentucky Medicaid recipients. The researchers studied the driving forces and challenges to providing tobacco treatment by interviewing professionals from Managed Care Organizations serving Kentucky Medicaid recipients.

UK Nursing & COVID-19 series: Kacy Allen-Byrant on social injustice

Feb 12, 2021

In March 2021, we will officially pass the one-year mark from when the pandemic hit the University of Kentucky and dramatically changed our way of life. We are taking this opportunity to look back at some of the standout stories and people in our UK College of Nursing community who stepped up and inspired us during tough times.

Oped: We must break the silence around nurse suicide as they fight for patients in pandemic

Feb 9, 2021

While the COVID-19 pandemic rages on with new variants, the urgency for Kentucky nurses to stay on the frontlines now extends to a massive vaccine campaign. Just like Florence Nightingale and Mary Jane Seacole, British-Jamaican nurse, did in the Crimean war, nurses today are working 24/7 to get the mission accomplished. Although the practice settings may change from a critical care unit one day and the next to a large parking lot tent, football stadium or drive-through clinic, the shepherding of public health in the commonwealth remains the same.

UK Faculty, Students Contribute to National Cancer Prevention Workshop

Feb 8, 2021

Faculty and students from the University of Kentucky Colleges of Nursing and Education were featured panelists during Less Cancer's National Cancer Prevention Workshop, to discuss the increased use of e-cigarettes among young people, the short and long-term effects of vaping and efforts to curb its popularity.

College of Nursing alumni receive 2021 Lyman T. Johnson awards

Feb 2, 2021

Pictured above left to right are Danielle Duncan (BSN 2020), Delanor Manson (BSN 1978) Congratulations to University of Kentucky College of Nursing alumni Danielle Duncan and Kentucky Nurses Association Delanor Manson for receiving the Lyman T. Johnson Torch Bearer and Torch of Excellence awards, respectively.

As pandemic keeps us more at home, risk of lung cancer from radon gas increases; tests are available

Feb 2, 2021

Learn details and more about the map. This year alone, approximately 4,890 Kentuckians will be diagnosed with lung cancer, yet the disease remains highly preventable. While nearly 80 percent of lung cancers are caused by tobacco smoke, exposure to radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer, accounting for approximately 21,000 cases of lung cancer each year in the U.S.

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