Nursing

Two faculty members at the WSU College of Nursing are testing a fabric mask made with a filter available at big‑box stores as an alternative to sometimes-scarce N95 masks.

Andrew Given is the first nursing student to be awarded the graduate fellowship for his research investigating a “patient-centered” approach to addiction treatment.

Sexual intimacy is an important quality-of-life issue for cancer patients, but it’s a difficult subject to talk about – even for nurses.  Freyja Herzog, who just earned her bachelor’s degree from the WSU College of Nursing, wanted to do something about that.   

Nursing graduate Jacqueline Flowers talks about creativity and flexibility in how WSU and health care professionals have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The move will encourage greater educational partnership between WSU nursing students and osteopathic medical students from the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences.

A WSU College of Nursing refresher course for nurses who have let their licenses lapse is seeing a surge of applications and interest in recent weeks.

Koithan was chosen after a nationwide search and has more than 30 years of academic and leadership experience in nursing. She replaces Mel Haberman, who has served as interim dean for the College of Nursing since March 2019.

Certificate programs are helping Pam Martin prepare for her goal of using her nurse practitioner education to help ease suffering around the world.

From their time together as nursing undergrads, to saying ‘I do,’ to welcoming their first child, Coug nurses Kayla Adrian and Kolby Wade have chronicled each milestone of their love story with photos taken on the WSU Health Sciences Spokane campus.

The number of people who use marijuana daily is on the rise. This upward trend also holds up in women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, despite evidence that using marijuana could harm their babies.