With Thanksgiving and end-of-the-year holidays coming soon, many Americans will eat, drink and get heavier. It is a challenging season for those working to control and reverse our nation’s obesity epidemic.
Luckily this is an opportune time to remind everyone of the problem and discuss ideas and projects to combat obesity, especially in children, according to [...]

BROOKDALE SENIOR LIVING
Since 1978, Brookdale Senior Living Inc. has helped seniors lead a quality life in socially engaging settings, full of meaning and dignity. Brookdale currently operate in excess of 550 senior living /retirement communities across the US. 32,000 Brookdale associates serve more than 52,000 residents. ISC (Innovative Senior Care), a fully-owned Brookdale subsidiary provides [...]

Since 1978, Brookdale Senior Living Inc. has helped seniors lead a quality life in socially engaging settings, full of meaning and dignity. Brookdale currently operate in excess of 550 senior living /retirement communities across the US. 32,000 Brookdale associates serve more than 52,000 residents. ISC (Innovative Senior Care), a fully-owned Brookdale subsidiary provides home health [...]

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN(R)) Center for Regulatory Excellence Grant Program recently awarded grants totaling more than $1.7 million to eight U.S. organizations.
The Center for Regulatory Excellence Grant Program funds innovative projects that can have measurable impact on nursing regulation and can create meaningful change. The Center’s research priorities include: continuing [...]

For years, nursing students at the University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing have attended classes all over campus with no centralized building for their studies.
That will change in 2010 when a new $20 million building for the nursing program is completed. Officials and those in the nursing community hope that the new building will [...]

Lindsay Cokel just started nursing school, and she already has a job lined up.Cokel, who’s working on her bachelor’s degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Nursing, will start at Brookwood Medical Center when she graduates. In exchange, Brookwood is helping pay some of her tuition.
Deals like Cokel’s are increasingly common as [...]

Patrice I. Jones has been named vice president of Patient Care Services at DCH Regional Medical Center. As vice president, Jones is responsible for the hospital’s nursing staff, pharmacy, respiratory services and food and nutritional services. She replaces Eula Das, who has retired after holding the position since 1996.
Jones comes to DCH from UAB Hospital [...]

The Nursing Program at Auburn University Montgomery is a four-year course of study that leads to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.). Within the Nursing courses, there are classroom, laboratory, and clinical learning experiences. The clinical experiences are provided in a variety of health care agencies in and around Montgomery. Upon successful completion of [...]

Entering freshmen and transfer students complete a four-year curriculum leading to Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Upon satisfactory completion of the program, students are awarded the BSN degree, and are eligible to take the NCLEX exam for licensing as a registered nurse (R.N.).
For Registered Nurses who wish to attain the BSN degree, our “Flex-Track RN [...]

The Auburn University School of Nursing (AUSON), established in 1979, is one of the newest of Alabama’s nine publicly supported baccalaureate nursing programs. As such, the School has a responsibility to prepare nurses to deliver health care services in diverse settings in the state and region and to provide leadership in health education and research [...]