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UofL Dean, KentuckyOne Health Chief Nursing Officer call for more highly educated nursing workforce in Kentucky

May 9, 2016

National Nurses Week is May 6-12, and two of Louisville’s prominent nursing leaders – Marcia J. Hern, EdD, CNS, RN, dean and professor of UofL’s School of Nursing, and Velinda J.

Mental health services now provided at racetrack clinic

May 4, 2016

The unseen workers who help ensure thrilling thoroughbred races at Churchill Downs now have better mental health support for the emotional problems their itinerant jobs often compound.

Certified nurse midwife to discuss hormones’ role in labor, childbirth

May 3, 2016

A pregnant woman’s body undergoes a complex set of interconnected, mutually beneficial phases that prepare her and her baby for childbirth. The hormonal actions occurring in one phase anticipate and usher in subsequent phases.