News: School of Nursing

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UNLV graduate student Jennifer Peltier develops escape rooms to enhance learning for nursing students.

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NurseMuse, an online program, helps nursing students learn how to develop patient care plans.

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Nursing graduate student Barrister Perez lobbies for hospital improvements with data to back him up.

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Through a community partnership, the UNLV School of Nursing helps address loss through online support groups.

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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.

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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.