Due to unsafe road conditions for Anchorage and surrounding areas, UAA鈥檚 Anchorage campus will be on a delayed start today, Thursday, Dec. 4. Campus will open at 10 a.m. to allow for safer travel.
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.
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.
Four women鈥擩yll Green, Jill Rife, Leigh Keefer and Robin Bassett鈥攂ecame the first class of graduates to accept Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees from UAA at fall commencement.
"Criminal Justice Reform: A discussion of Senate Bill 91 鈥� Reducing the prison population while enhancing public safety" was a discussion of Senate Bill 91: Omnibus Criminal Law & Procedure; Corrections Act. SB 91, based upon recommendations of the 熊猫在线视频 Criminal Justice Commission, was signed into law in 熊猫在线视频 in July 2016.
Finding a career in medicine has always been Jacqueline Solano's goal. Nursing was her original career choice when she started college. As a certified nursing assistant, she spent a summer working at Providence 熊猫在线视频 Medical Center's transitional care unit and met a patient who changed her life-a woman in her late 60s who had just had a stroke.
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