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Center for Global Nursing collaboration studies HIV-related stigma

11/30/20

Patrick Palmieri, DHSc, DPhil(Hon.), EdS, PGDip(Oxon) teamed with Joan Edwards, PhD, RNC, CNS, FAAN and Juan Leyva-Moral, PhD, MSN, RN to publish research on HIV-related attitudes of nursing faculty in three continents from six countries: Canada, Colombia, England, Peru, Spain, and the United States.

College of Nursing assists flu shot clinic

11/17/20

In a partnership with TWU Student Health Services, the College of Nursing provided a free flu shot clinic in November.

Cesario elected to AWHONN Board of Directors

10/7/20

Sandra Cesario, PhD, MS, RNC, FAAN, a professor and PhD program director in the College of Nursing at TWU Houston, has been elected President-Elect of the Association of Women鈥檚 Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Board of Directors for 2021 and will assume the role of President on January 1, 2022.

9/29/20

Cheryl Thaxton (nursing, Dallas) has been selected to co-chair the Pediatric Palliative Care (PCC) Task Force, which was established by the National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care.

TWU alum showed focus, grace during pandemic’s peak at hospital

8/19/20

It is difficult to imagine a task more daunting than being the chief nursing officer at Houston鈥檚 Ben Taub Hospital. The 444-bed teaching hospital provides indigent care, includes an elite Level 1 trauma center and lies in the heart of Houston鈥檚 Texas Medical Center, the largest in the world.