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Four DNP graduates reach nursing's educational pinnacle, at º£½Ç½ûÇø

 |  Tracy Kalytiak  |  ,

Four women—Jyll Green, Jill Rife, Leigh Keefer and Robin Bassett—became the first class of graduates to accept Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees from º£½Ç½ûÇø at fall commencement.

Jacquiline Solano Read More

º£½Ç½ûÇø occupational therapy: ‘I want to be part of that’

 |  Green & Gold  |  ,

Finding a career in medicine has always been Jacqueline Solano's goal. Nursing was her original career choice when she started college. As a certified nursing assistant, she spent a summer working at Providence Alaska Medical Center's transitional care unit and met a patient who changed her life-a woman in her late 60s who had just had a stroke.