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Pace University’s Lienhard School of Nursing will again award scholarships to students from groups traditionally underrepresented in nursing, including men and people from disadvantaged backgrounds, thanks to a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).

Philip A. Greiner, DNSc, RN, has been named Associate Dean for Faculty Development in Scholarship and Teaching at Pace University’s Lienhard School of Nursing, starting this month. Greiner’s areas of expertise include electronic health records use with simulation, public health nursing and aging.

Pace University President Stephen J. Friedman announced that Harriet R. Feldman, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean and tenured professor of Pace’s Lienhard School of Nursing since 1993, will assume the role of interim provost, effective August 1.

Nurses often speak out on behalf of their patients to ensure they get the best possible care, improving the lives of many people, one at a time. But nurses are also a powerful group when they get together to advocate on the local and national level to improve the healthcare system for all of us.

Toby Haghenbeck, Assistant Professor at Lienhard School of Nursing at Pace University in Pleasantville, NY recently received national recognition for reaching a significant milestone in the nursing profession: Since 1979 she has consistently maintained CCRN® certification offered through AACN Certification Corporation. Toby Haghenbeck is one of 108 CCRNs being honored this year by the corporation and the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses for 30 years of continuous certification.

Pace University’s Lienhard School of Nursing and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) today announced a $1.3 million program to provide nursing scholarships for 30 individuals in exchange for a commitment to work at an HHC facility for four years.

The 2006 Summer Scholars Program for Nursing and Health Careers is a new initiative designed to encourage middle school students (in 6th, 7th and 8th grades) in Westchester County to explore nursing and health care as career choices as well as to increase awareness of personal health and to promote wellness in these students. This program originated as a long term solution to the regional and national nursing shortage crisis.

Monday, January 23 at 10:45 am, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) will honor Congresswoman Nita Lowey in her White Plains district office to recognize her outstanding leadership on behalf of nursing education and research.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao today announced a grant of $1,048,300 to the Orange County Workforce Investment Board (WIB) in New York. The grantee is one of 12 winners selected from nearly 230 applicants competing for funding under the President’s High Growth Job Training Initiative. A total of more than $12 million is being awarded nationwide to address opportunities to build a world-class health care and biotechnology workforce.

Today Harriet Feldman, Dean and Professor of the Lienhard School of Nursing at Pace University, located in Westchester County and New York City, New York, addressed the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education on the nationwide shortage of registered nurses and the underlying shortage of nurse faculty.