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Interview with Dean Heath: Nurses Working to Spread Mental Health Awareness, Resources During Pandemic

Mar 10, 2021

The below article was written by Crystal Sicard for Spectrum 1 News. Watch the interview with Dean Janie Heath What You Need To Know:

UK College of Nursing Volunteers Lead Saturday's Kroger Field Vaccine Clinic

Mar 5, 2021

Pictured above: Nursing student Tyler Jones giving COVID-19 vaccine Approximately 115 University of Kentucky College of Nursing faculty, staff and students volunteered their services at the UK COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Kroger Field on Saturday, Feb. 27. The volunteers enabled the clinic to offer expanded Saturday hours and an increased vaccination capacity by about 1,000 people. This was the final week of a five-week volunteer effort from UK's health care colleges to extend clinic hours from noon to 6 p.m. each Saturday.

Statement on tragic passing of nursing student Jesse Averitt

Mar 5, 2021

Student Recognition

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

Events

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

Faculty Recognition

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

Research

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

Recognition

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.

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