This initiative by CEO Roundtable on Cancer can impact over 20 million lives within 7-10 years, especially among those affected by cancer.
Student Health Services: When to Use the Campus Clinic
From vaccines to emergency care, campus clinics help students stay healthy and succeed in school. If you need health care in college, here are some tips to take advantage of student health services.
Alabama State Biology Pre-health Junior Named Tylenol Future Care Scholar
An Alabama State University student majoring in biology pre-health is one of 40 students selected from more than 25,000 applicants to receive a Tylenol Future Care Scholarship this year. Joselyn Miller, a junior biology pre-health major/chemistry minor, has received a $5,000 Tylenol Future Care Scholarship. The highly competitive scholarship is awarded to students who excel […]
Edward Waters Opens Health Clinic to Serve Campus and Community
Edward Waters College (EWC), the City of Jacksonville, FL and the Department of Families and Children came together Wednesday, September 30th to celebrate the grand opening of the Schell Sweet Community Health Clinic. The clinic will serve EWC faculty, staff, and students; as well as the surrounding community. “We are delighted to open this clinic […]
ACPE Accredited HBCU Pharmacy Schools
With so many pharmacy schools in the United States, aspiring pharmacy students have many options. So how do you narrow down your list to a manageable few? Accreditations can help. In fact, it might interest you to note that pharmacy graduates from an accredited school are guaranteed eligibility for licensure. Whereas, those from unaccredited schools […]
Kentucky State Launches First Doctoral Program in 2015
The first doctoral program at Kentucky State University will join the wave of the future in health care in January 2015. Designed to prepare registered nurses to become adult gerontology primary care nurse practitioners, the new online Doctor of Nursing Practice (BSN-DNP) degree program now accepts students who have earned a Bachelor of Science in […]
Practical Practicum: What You Need to Know
Whether you are earning your nursing degree at an on-campus program or you are enrolled in one of the many online master of science in nursing programs, classroom learning is only part of your educational experience. In order to complete your degree program, you’ll have to successfully complete a practicum, or master of science in […]
The Role Nurses Play in Public Health
According to the American Nurses Association, public health is a discipline that strives to “preserve, protect and improve the health of an entire population through the prevention and control of communicable disease, injury and disability prevention, promotion of health status improvement for all and universal access to preventative services.” The role of a public health […]