College of Health News

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With an impending nursing shortage, UAA’s School of Nursing steps up to the plate

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Guided by feedback from industry leaders, UAA’s School of Nursing is working to expand the program’s statewide reach with increased faculty and more robust satellite campus programs.

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Aspiring nurses get networking, skills head-start at RRANN camp

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School of Nursing RRANN camp helps recruit young Alaska Native nurses.

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UAA College of Health Simulation Lab

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At our Health Sciences Simulation Center, students from the UAA School of Nursing get to practice and perfect their skills in a safe, supportive environment.

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Addiction, homelessness focus of UAA Think Tank talk

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Addiction and homelessness plague scores of people in Anchorage. Those topics will be the centerpiece of a Feb. 2 UAA Think Tank session, which is co-hosted by the UAA School of Nursing, with Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission featured as the guest agency.

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UAA DNP alumna: 'Vivitrol's the path to an opioid-free life...it gets you clean'

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A monthly injection of Vivitrol calms cravings for heroin, giving real help to addicts emerging from prison and, as UAA DNP alumna Jyll Green discovered, providing a good chance of keeping them from going back behind bars.