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Current Nursing News

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The newest Rebel grads reflect on their time at 性视界传媒 and share what the future holds.

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性视界传媒 nursing course earns Kathleen Thimsen the 性视界传媒 2026 Community Engagement Service-Learning Award.

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At 性视界传媒鈥檚 Clinical Simulation Center, this professor and alumna prepares future nurses through simulation-based training that demands both patience and patient care.

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A 性视界传媒-record 33 graduate and professional programs rank among the nation鈥檚 top 100 in their discipline, including 15 in law and 6 in business.

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This operations specialist at the School of Medicine is powered by main-character energy and a lot of sticky notes.

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University鈥檚 online nursing master鈥檚 programs, bachelor鈥檚 in psychology, and master鈥檚 in engineering crack the top 50 in publication鈥檚 annual list of nation鈥檚 best online degree programs. 
 

Nursing In The News

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

Local healthcare experts are warning about a continuing nursing shortage across the country.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

Local healthcare experts are warning about a continuing nursing shortage across the country.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

Trauma can strike at any time and when it does first responders jump into action. Students from the 性视界传媒 School of Nursing got a dose of what they may face after graduation.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

More than 100 nursing students at 性视界传媒 are getting hands-on experience responding to disasters through the school鈥檚 first-ever mass casualty simulation. The training is designed to mirror the chaos of a real emergency complete with sirens, screaming victims, and emergency radio chatter.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The state鈥檚 Office of Workforce Innovation is partnering with the 性视界传媒 School of Nursing to expand opportunities for Nevada high school students and recent graduates interested in nursing careers. The office will cover all registration costs for 性视界传媒 Nurse Camp, making the program free for participating students in Nevada.

KNPR News

February, Black History Month, is on its way out, but that doesn鈥檛 mean the issues affecting Nevada鈥檚 Black community are, too. One such issue is the state鈥檚 HIV/AIDS rate, which disproportionately impacts the local Black community. Clark County has a 36% higher rate of HIV than the United States average. And in 2023, HIV/AIDS affected more than 1,200 African Americans in Southern Nevada.

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Recent Nursing Accomplishments

Andrew Thomas Reyes (Nursing) presented a podium presentation at the 11th International Conference of the European Transcultural Nursing Association (ETNA) in Limassol, Cyprus last May 5, 2026. The title of his presentation was "Culturally Mediated Barriers to Mental Health Help-Seeking Among Filipino American Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study鈥
Clariana Ramos de Oliveira (Nursing) and Timothy Grigsby (Public Health) published an article in Child Abuse & Neglect, titled "Breaking the cycle: How maternal adversity shapes coercive parenting and physical harsh discipline among adolescent mothers in southern Brazil." The research explores how early exposure to adversity and violence鈥
Hyunhwa Lee, Jinyoung Kim, Kevin Dangler, Joseph Cadiz, Kaitlyn Piantoni, Jennifer Vanderlaan, Nikki Rose Ty-Albright, Necole Leland, Breanna Schumacher, Sarah Musovski, Ashley Wood, Victoria Seidman, Kayla Sweeney, Kayla Sullivan, Andrea Koplin, Jodie Peterson, Sandy Phan, Dihini Perera (all Nursing) presented at the 2026 Western鈥
Hyunhwa "Henna" Lee (Nursing) published an article in Clinics and Practice titled, 鈥淧re-Injury Adversity, Functional Recovery, and Salivary microRNA Changes After a Dual-Task Exercise in Asians and Pacific Islanders with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Feasibility Study.鈥 This feasibility study examined a 14-day, brief, home-based dual-task鈥
Mina Attin (Nursing), Bryer Shareef (Computer Science), Xan Goodman (University Libraries), and Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with their student researchers, have published 鈥淧redicting In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Using Machine Learning Models: A Scoping Review鈥 in Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Medicine. The study highlights the growing鈥
Reimund Serafica  (Nursing) authored a brief commentary titled, "Reimagining Rural Mental Health Care Through Transcultural Nursing" in the Journal of Transcultural Nursing. The commentary describes persistent barriers to equitable, culturally responsive mental health care in rural U.S. communities and underscores the importance of culturally鈥