Members of UALR’s Department of Nursing have teamed up with the City of Little Rock for the Love Your School initiative, a health promotion project aimed at reducing childhood obesity.
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Kenneth Meyer, a graduate of UALR’s Nursing program, died last week in the crash of a Medivac helicopter based in Vilonia, along with two other members of the flight crew.
“The whole community feels the loss,” said Lt. Jeremy Pugh of the Velvet Ridge Fire Department, prior to the beginning of the memorial held at the Air Evac base in Vilonia. “The EMS community across the state is feeling the loss. We are all in mourning along with the Air Evac Lifeteam.”
More than 200 gathered for the vigil, sponsored by the Vilonia Fire Department, to honor Meyer, pilot Ken Robertson, and flight paramedic Gayla Gregory.
Officials of UALR and Baptist Health have signed an agreement to provide RN graduates from the Baptist Health Schools Little Rock (BHSLR) – School of Nursing a seamless and online way to obtain a bachelor of science in nursing.
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Avis Smith, a sophomore from West Helena, won the Outstanding Peer Education Leadership Award at the National Area 6 Bacchus Gamma Peer Education Conference in Fayetteville this spring.
Members of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees Friday approved a $34 million bond issue for UALR that will generate $31.6 million for capital projects over the next three years.
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UALR will host a site review for initial accreditation of the University’s bachelor of science in nursing program and continuing accreditation of UALR’s associate of science degree nursing program.
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