MAC Messages Number 89:
September/October 2001

Hampton University School of Nursing Receives NLM Award

HU Nursing School Receives $364,933 from NLM
# 78 (6/26/01)

Hampton, Va. - Hampton University School of Nursing was recently awarded $364,933 from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The award will be used to buy computer equipment and to instruct students and faculty in using health sciences databases. The students and faculty will be exposed to current health information through the use of online instructional technologies and clinical data systems.

The faculty of the HU School of Nursing implemented an innovative, community-based, family focused curriculum in 1999. The courses are designed to prepare students to practice in community, as well as traditional settings. Each undergraduate nursing course has an informatics component in which students learn about technologies used in the patient and family care setting.

"Students and faculty will participate in extensive practical, hands-on training," said Cynthia Burke, Hampton University Nursing Information System Project Director and School of Nursing Librarian. "What they are taught can be immediately applied in the clinical and classroom settings. In addition, they can use what they learn at Hampton University now and throughout their careers."

The National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, is the world's largest biomedical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. MEDLINE has more than 11 million journal article references and abstracts going back to the early sixties. Other databases provide information on monographs (books), audiovisual materials, and on such specialized subjects as toxicology, environmental health, and molecular biology. Health care professionals, researchers, attorneys, students, and the general public use the NLM to meet their health information needs.

The NLM has recently provided access to reputable consumer health information through its MEDLINEplus database.

Hampton University School of Nursing is the oldest continuous nursing baccalaureate program in Virginia. The first master's and doctoral programs in nursing at a historically black college or university were started at Hampton University. The School is approved by the Virginia Board of Nursing, and is fully accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission.

CONTACT:
Yuri R. Rodgers
(757) 727-5754
yuri.rodgers@hamptonu.edu

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