Nursing News and Events

Fisher Earns “College of Distinction” Designation 2019-2020 Colleges of Distinction Badge

08/13/2019 - St. John Fisher College was among just 400 colleges and universities across the country to earn a 2019-2020 Best Colleges of Distinction designation.

#Fisher2019: Mental Health Counselor Finds Meaning in Work Shantel Giles

07/30/2019 - Shantel Giles is a natural listener and throughout her life, friends and family have viewed her as a confidant and source of advice.

#Fisher2019: Fisher Nurse Finds New Home in Cardiac Unit Maria Robles poses in her commencement attire in front of Kearney Hall.

07/16/2019 - After four years at St. John Fisher College, Brooklyn, New York, native Maria Robles ’19 is officially calling Rochester home.

Partnership with Slovenian University Sends Two Abroad Tara Sacco and Lori Dambaugh demonstrate the health assessment process.

07/05/2019 - St. John Fisher College professors Dr. Lori Dambaugh and Tara Sacco recently traveled to Slovenia to meet with faculty members from the University of Maribor Faculty of Health Sciences, thanks to a partnership between the central European university and the Wegmans School of Nursing.

CCAP Secures Student Funding for Summer Internship Opportunities Joe Current presents research.

06/28/2019 - A recent graduate and a rising sophomore have received the inaugural 2019 Internship Funding Award from the Center for Career and Academic Planning (CCAP) to help fill the gap for unpaid/underpaid internship opportunities that each are pursuing this summer.

Fisher Nurses Featured in 13WHAM-ABC News Story A patch on the uniform students wear at the Wegmans School of Nursing..

06/11/2019 - The lifesaving care provided by two Fisher nurses was the subject of a 13WHAM-ABC news story this spring.

Fisher Anticipates Welcoming Class of 2023 Accepted students from the Class of 2023 meet the Cardinal at an open house.

06/03/2019 - For the fall 2019 semester, and for the third year in a row, over 600 first-year students have committed to St. John Fisher College making the Class of 2023 the third largest incoming class in the College’s history.

Fisher Academic Programs among RBJ Reader Favorites A faculty member works with students in the classroom.

05/31/2019 - St. John Fisher College academic programs were among those selected as “reader favorites” in the Rochester Business Journal’s 2019 Reader Rankings Awards.

Cultural Experiences Add Skills to Students’ Nursing Toolbox Melissa Kenney did a preceptorship at the Kayenta Health Center, located on the Navajo Reservation.

05/23/2019 - In Navajo culture, it is disrespectful to point at people and looking elders directly in the eye is considered rude. That’s information Melissa Kenney ’19, a recent graduate of the Wegmans School of Nursing, learned through her senior preceptorship at the Kayenta Health Center, located on the Navajo Reservation.

Fisher’s Golisano Institute for Developmental Disability Nursing Announces International Partnership From left to right: Dr. Kevin Railey, President Gerard Rooney, Dr. John Wells, Dean Dianne Cooney Miner, and Ann Costello.

05/15/2019 - Officials from the Golisano Institute for Developmental Disability Nursing at St. John Fisher College and the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), in Waterford, Ireland, announced today a formal partnership to advance the Institute’s mission of transforming the way nurses treat the unique needs of individuals with developmental disabilities (DD).

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