Speaking a language other than English raises the chance of hospital readmission among U.S. patients
Patients with language barriers who are receiving home health care are at an increased risk for hospital readmission, according to a new study…
NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing has received the 2021 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. The…
A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics examines sudden cardiac arrests in New York State schools–and the life-saving equipment deployed in these situations. The researchers found that most incidents of cardiac arrest occur in…
Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, in close collaboration with New York University, has received $11.6 million in funding from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to develop the Rutgers…
Jasmine Travers, PhD, RN, AGPCNP-BC, assistant professor at NYU Meyers, has received a grant from the National Institute on Aging to identify unmet needs driving disproportionate and avoidable nursing home use among Black and Latino older adults…
The ancient Greeks had two different concepts of time: Chronos, which is governed by linear demands and measures (think the time measured on a clock), and Kairos, which captures the value of the experience as another way to measure time.
“Kairos…
Velda González-Mercado, PhD, MSN, RN, assistant professor at NYU Meyers, has received a grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The three-year grant of more than $500,000—a K23…
Please join the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Low Income Investment Fund, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for a virtual event on maternal…
The Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) has named Jennifer Pettis the recipient of its 2021 Amy J. Berman Geriatric Nursing Leadership Award, one of its International Awards for Nursing Excellence. The award will be…
P. Mimi Niles, PhD, MPH, CNM, assistant professor at NYU Meyers, has received a grant from the Commonwealth Fund to study midwifery care in New York City’s public health care system as a means to improve the healthcare experiences of childbearing…