http://www.buffalo.edu/news/list-page.html?key=d-nursing en-US Copyright 2008, University at Buffalo 2008-05-17T10:20:52-04:00 apage@buffalo.edu apage@buffalo.edu http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9227 Keeping newly licensed nurses working in the profession is critical to solving the chronic nursing shortage experienced across the U.S., an issue nursing researchers at the University at Buffalo and New York University have been studying since 2005. 2008-03-12T00:00:00-04:00 92270009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9122 Jean K. Brown, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, professor and interim dean of the University at Buffalo School of Nursing, has been named dean of the school following a national search, it was announced today by David L. Dunn, M.D., Ph.D., UB vice president for health sciences. 2008-02-01T00:00:00-04:00 91220009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8888 The University at Buffalo plans to move several of its key fund-raising offices and their 50 employees into the Jacobs Executive Development Center and its adjoining carriage house at 672 Delaware Ave. as the university continues to increase its presence in downtown Buffalo. The move is part of a plan that also will free up space in Wende Hall on UB's South Campus as the future home for an expanded UB School of Nursing better positioned to meet community needs. 2007-10-09T00:00:00-04:00 88880009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8845 "We are the bouncers, the bodyguards, the 'shotgun' riders, the overseers, the maitre d's, the stewards, the organizers, the managers and leaders for the patient . . . Often we are the only thing between them and a sentinel event. See us, hear us, feel us." Welcome to the nurse's world, through the words of those who live there. 2007-09-18T00:00:00-04:00 88450009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8808 What keeps a newly licensed nurse on the job? Answers to that question are important to hospitals across the U.S., many of which are confronting serious nursing shortages. Based on results of a study to be published in the May 2007 issue of <i>American Journal of Nursing</i>, the top two priorities for hospitals to address the retention issue are improving nursing management and taking steps to reduce on-the-job stress. 2007-08-29T00:00:00-04:00 88080009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8801 The acute shortage of registered nurses in the U.S. could be lessened by adopting tactics used successfully in other segments of the economy, including sweetening incentives for experienced nurses to stay on the job and enticing nurses who have left the profession back into the market, a new study proposes. 2007-08-16T00:00:00-04:00 88010009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8464 The University at Buffalo and Jamestown Community College have signed a new dual admission program agreement designed to assist the transfer experience and increase the number of students transferring to UB with completed JCC associate degrees that include prerequisites for parallel degree programs at UB. 2007-02-23T00:00:00-04:00 84640009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8270 Jean K. Brown., Ph.D., professor and associate dean of the University at Buffalo School of Nursing, was named interim dean of the nursing school Nov. 14 following the resignation due to illness of Mecca S. Cranley, Ph.D. 2006-11-28T00:00:00-04:00 82700009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8268 Mecca S. Cranley, Ph.D., dean of the University at Buffalo School of Nursing since 1991, died Nov. 20 in the hospice unit at Sister's Hospital in Buffalo, surrounded by her family. The cause was multiple myeloma, cancer of the bone marrow. She was 67. 2006-11-22T00:00:00-04:00 82680009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8223 Mecca S. Cranley, Ph.D., who has served as dean of UB's School of Nursing since 1991, has announced that she is stepping down at the end of the current academic year. 2006-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 82230009