News: School of Nursing
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UNLV nursing lecturer ups student engagement through classroom gamification.
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As she graduates through an accelerated program, Acacia Herndon is eager to join the nursing workforce with skills she honed as a nurse apprentice and as a researcher.
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Launching the first free-standing birth center took years of lobbying by nurse midwife April Clyde.
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A 2022 Outstanding Part-Time Instructor, Elizabeth “Hope” Hinchman helps nursing students put their book learning into practice.
A collection of news stories highlighting the experts and student changemakers at UNLV.
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UNLV Boyd Law School has 13 top 100 programs, including No. 1 ranking for legal writing.
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Research by nursing professors helping address issues from trouble sleeping to health education and psychiatric care.
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Do things that happened to you earlier in life impact how you respond to a concussion? Nursing professor Hyunhwa Lee wants to know.
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Disorders such as sleep apnea captured professor Jinyoung Kim's attention during her undergraduate days, prompting what would become a a lifetime of research.
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Associate Dean Lorraine Evangelista guides the future of research in the School of Nursing while at the same time conducting research of her own.
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Meet three UNLV professors who juggle their teaching load and clinical practice.
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Cheryl Maes says having a “service mindset” helps her balance her various roles.