http://www.buffalo.edu/news/list-page.html?key=d-nursing en-US Copyright 2009, University at Buffalo 2009-11-04T13:20:42-05:00 ub-news@buffalo.edu ub-news@buffalo.edu http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10601 For women just diagnosed with breast cancer, one of the important decisions confronting them is whether to have a lumpectomy or mastectomy. Most studies investigating how women make this choice have surveyed women months and sometimes even years after their decision was made. Recently, however, the publication of a new University at Buffalo study, one of the few to focus on the time period between women's breast cancer diagnosis and surgery, provides insight into what women are thinking when faced with this decision. 2009-10-26T00:00:00-05:00 106010009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10218 Improved communication among patients and primary care physicians increases the chances those due for colorectal cancer screening will follow their doctors' advice and complete the procedure, a University at Buffalo study has found. 2009-06-29T00:00:00-05:00 102180009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9867 As the United States continues to experience a nursing shortage that is expected to grow to one million nurses by 2016, a new research study highlights a pool of potential candidates who could alleviate the shortage in an economical way. 2009-01-23T00:00:00-05:00 98670009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9828 The most frequent cause of death among firefighters is not flames: It's their hearts. Forty-four percent of U.S. firefighters who died on duty in 2007 succumbed to a heart attack, based on data from the U.S. Fire Administration. That figure is twice the number of cardiovascular deaths among on-duty police officers. 2008-12-18T00:00:00-05:00 98280009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9795 The School of Nursing at the University at Buffalo is testing an innovative approach to clinical nurse education developed at Flinders University of Australia that should improve the chronic shortage of qualified clinical faculty to train the students. 2008-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 97950009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9702 Patricia E. Benner, Ph.D., an internationally known nurse-researcher and lecturer, will present the UB School of Nursing's 12th Annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 in the Adams Mark Hotel in downtown Buffalo. 2008-10-14T00:00:00-05:00 97020009 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. 2008-03-12T00:00:00-05:00 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. 2008-02-01T00:00:00-05:00 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. 2007-10-09T00:00:00-05:00 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. 2007-09-18T00:00:00-05:00 88450009