Scholarships for Nursing Students

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There’s still time to apply for one of the following funding opportunities. Geared towards graduate and undergraduate students, they’re great resources for beginning professionals!

The application deadline for each is February 1, 2015.

  • Graduate Scholarship in Cancer Nursing Practice
    The American Cancer Society offers this award to support graduate students pursuing a master’s degree in cancer nursing or a doctorate of nursing practice (DNP).
  • ONS Foundation Academic Scholarship
    The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Foundation awards scholarships to students (bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral) and practitioners committed to oncology nursing.
  • NEF Scholarship
    The Nurses Education Funds (NEF) seeks and distributes funds to baccalaureate-prepared registered nurses who are in need of scholarship assistance for graduate study.

Sir Murray F. Brennan Knighted by his native New Zealand and more…

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  • On December 31, Sir Murray Brennan, an international leader in cancer research who chaired the Dept. of Surgery at MSKCC for over twenty years, was bestowed the honor of Knight Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, one of his native New Zealand’s highest honors, for his services to medicine.
  • On January 5, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) announced that MSKCC will be awarded a $3.2 million grant, one of five awards (totalling $28.3M) made to researchers trying to understand how genes get turned on and off.
  • In a January 6 article in PMLive entitled “Organs-in-a-dish aid drug discovery”, the work of MSKCC researcher Dr. Yu Chen, whose team created  prostate cancer organoids, was highlighted as an achievement that could someday aid drug discovery.
  • Recognized in a December 31 Daily News article were the best ways that Taylor Swift gave back to her fans in 2014, including dropping in on fan and cancer patient, Shelby Huff, who was shocked by Swift’s surprise visit to MSKCC last March.

MedCalc3000 Is Part of Stat!Ref

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MedCalc3000 is an evidence-based decision support tool that is now part of STAT!Ref. It is a collection of over 400 calculations, clinical criteria sets and decision trees. With each search you perform STAT!Ref automatically presents links to relevant evidence-based medicine (EBM) tools within MedCalc 3000. Among the tools included are: Clinical Criteria Sets, Decision Trees, Medical Equations, and Unit and Dose Converters.

MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide array of pertinent tools used everyday by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and health care students of all types.

This resource may be accessed through STAT!Ref, as well as the new STAT!Ref App.