Nursing

Many colleges are creating nursing degree programs amid a nationwide shortage of nursing professionals. 

Below are 15 hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers. 

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health hasn't reported any COVID-19 deaths for its nursing staff across the entire system. 

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins School of Nursing has appointed Marie Nolan, PhD, RN, to serve as the school's interim dean, effective April 16. 

An Atlanta-based nurse who contracted COVID-19 while working on the pandemic's front line last year has launched a consulting company to help organizations improve pandemic preparedness, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Maddy Pearson, DNP, RN, CNO at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital, has started the Resiliency Roadmap podcast focused on how nurses can build resiliency and practice self-care, WGBH, a local NPR station, reported March 31. 

Ann Kurth, PhD, MSN, will start her second term as dean of Yale University's School of Nursing in New Haven, Conn., July 1, the university announced March 29. 

An emergency room nurse at Providence, R.I.-based Roger Williams Medical Center invented a portable case for clinicians to store their N95 masks, reports NBC affiliate WJAR.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University has the No. 1 program for earning a master's degree in nursing, according to U.S. News and World Report's 'Best Nursing Schools' for 2022 released March 30. 

Pamela Jeffries, PhD, RN, will become dean of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University School of Nursing after current Dean Linda Norman, DSN, RN, steps down June 30, according to a March 24 news release.