Terri Ares, lecturer and Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) program adviser at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), means a lot to her students. Entrenched last fall while finishing their clinical hours, studying for final exams and preparing for graduation, her students somehow etched out enough time to gather feedback about Ares from multiple sources, solicit letters from her colleagues, and assemble an award nomination package to submit to the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS). Their efforts paid off. On March 6, Ares was presented the NACNS' prestigious Clinical Nurse Specialist Educator of the Year Award during its 2015 Annual Conference in ... Read More
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Nursing Program Ranked By U.S. News & World Report, NurseJournal.org
California State University, Dominguez Hills' School of Nursing and its degree programs were recently ranked nationally by two publications. In the U.S. News & World Report 2015 Best College rankings, CSUDH School of Nursing's online Bachelor of Nursing program ranked 140th in the nation for online degree programs. U.S. News & World Report's methodology considers student engagement, faculty credentialing and training, and student services and technology. For more information on the rankings, visit here. The School also received the highest ranking in the West by NurseJournal.org, a social networking website for nurses and health care professionals, with an overall score of ... Read More
Faculty Scholars Program gives Enrique Ortega more time for research, students
Working with researchers in Sweden and Italy, Enrique Ortega, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Science at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), is providing his students with unique access at the undergraduate level to not only research but also international collaboration. Ortega, who came to CSUDH as an adjunct faculty member in 2010, and his health science students have collaborated with researchers at the University of Turin in Italy and Orebro University in Sweden to gather information and form hypotheses about the individual and environmental causes or health outcomes related to mental, physical, and social health indicators. “Both institutions ... Read More
Kaiser Internship Offers Kinesiology Students Unique Experience
Nicole Chambers and Wendy Barrios, seniors studying kinesiology at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), will have a significant advantage when applying for post-graduate healthcare programs, and invaluable work experience that is often hard to acquire at the undergraduate level. The students, who both are earning their Bachelors of Arts in Physical Education, with the pre-physical therapy option, at CSUDH, were chosen as the first recipients of the new Kaiser Permanente Mobility Technician Internship, which was launched in the fall 2014. Developed through a partnership between CSUDH's Division of Kinesiology and Recreation and Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical ... Read More
Nursing Student’s Program Helps Save Lives in State Prison
Kelly Ranson, a nursing graduate student at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), has taken her award-winning class assignment to develop a health improvement process for a chosen population of study and successfully implemented it in the unique place where she works, Kern Valley State Prison. As chief nurse executive for the level-4 high-security facility for the past five years, Ranson immediately knew she wanted to focus on the inmate population when CSUDH Assistant Professor of Nursing Lauren Outland assigned the project in her Health Promotion and Disease Prevention course. The resulting project was “Improving Glycemic Control Among Incarcerated Men” (IGCAIM), which ... Read More
