Nursing students are invited to submit an abstract for a 15 minute oral presentation or poster session at the WV State Rural Health Conference, November 15 at the Resort at Glade Springs in Daniels, near Beckley. Successful applicants will receive a stipend to cover the cost of conference registration plus one night stay at the Resort. Abstracts are due September 14. Please click for additional instructions and an abstract application form : http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/son/data/newsFiles/Call_for_Abstracts_Flyer_2012.pdf http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/son/data/newsFiles/Abstract_Form_&_Instructions...

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The PRT has been closed since May 7 for scheduled maintenance. Bus service, shadowing the route of the PRT, will be provided through May 26 from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Bus stop locations are adjacent to the PRT stations. As always anyone with a valid Mountaineer ID Card can ride Mountain Line buses at no charge. ...

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Senior nursing students Jessica Flaherty, Samantha Menrad and Lisa Summers have been active in the Student Nurse Association since their sophomore year, attending annual conferences and assuming leadership roles at the School of Nursing. At last year’s conference, they made the commitment to work as a team to develop a resolution to submit at this year’s annual meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. “We knew that preparing and submitting a resolution was something that we could do, even though we weren’t sure of what we were getting ourselves in to” admits Flaherty. Last year, they learned tha...

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Application Submission Date: October 1st of each year

**Recipient(s) will be notified no later than January 1st of each year**

SoN Strategic Plan

Please click here for Nursing Faculty Loan Program Application Form

The WVU School of Nursing has been awarded grant money from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support students who are admitted to the January 2012 cohort of the BS/BA to BSN accelerated (Fast Track) program. This grant will allow the School of Nursing to offer significant scholarships to students from backgrounds that underrepresented in the field of nursing. This includes underrepresented minority groups, males, first generation college students, students from rural areas and those from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. Please see Stuart Wells, Director of Admissions and Enrollment for more information, email swells@hsc.wvu.edu, or call 304 293-1386. More information on the BS/BA to BSN program and application process is also available at our website: http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/son/academicPrograms_bsba_bsn.aspx

The West Virginia University School of Nursing recently received $950,400 in federal funding that will allow 25 graduate students to complete the Family Nurse Practitioner program. The grant is intended to prepare health care workers to meet the needs of an increasing number of patients who will have insurance once health care reform is implemented. WVU is the only nursing school in the state to receive this grant.

Details: http://wvuhealthcare.com/newsreleases/news-details.aspx?ID=1597.

The West Virginia University School of Nursing has recently received $264,000--the final installment of a major grant that has enabled significant expansion of advanced nursing practice programs. The foundation has been laid for the new baccalaureate to Doctor of Nursing Practice program to welcome its first class in the fall of 2011. In addition, two new tracks of study for Nurse Practitioner students have been added.

The grant funds are from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). This completes the agency's three-year award of nearly $800,000 to the School of Nursing.

Details: http://www.health.wvu.edu/newsreleases/news-details.aspx?ID=1585.

The West Virginia University School of Nursing has made the annual “Best Graduate Schools”

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the West Virginia University Institute for Health Policy Research a four-year, $2.6 million grant to establish a national center devoted to rural health research.

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