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School of Nursing is shaping the future of health care through compassion and clinical
expertise.
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06/06/2025- Four nursing educators in Saint Louis University’s Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing have been honored with a St. Louis Magazine’s 2025 Excellence in Nursing Award. This recognition underscores the dedication and leadership of SLU’s nurse educators in advancing the profession and shaping the future of health care.
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08/21/2023- Saint Louis University’s Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing will have three new faculty members join the University this semester. The new faculty members include Amy Berkley, Ph.D., Amanda Flynn, DNP, and Katelyn Wilson, DNP.
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09/05/2019- The School of Nursing is celebrating 90 years of excellence in education. Graduates of the program have excelled in a variety of careers. Today, alumni look back at their memories from the program.
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11/20/2018- Sharon Page, R.N., N.P. (’06), D.N.P. (’15) used her advanced degrees to grow her N.P.-led pediatric practice in northwest Tennessee. When she opened Martin Children’s Clinic in 2010, she had three employees.
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11/12/2018- It has been present since the early days of students caring for the indigent at St. Mary’s Infirmary, to the present day of students providing free physicals to children in public schools. This core value of service is reinforced in academic courses, outreach initiatives and programs – perhaps none more so than the School of Nursing’s advanced nursing practice programs, primarily its nurse practitioner (N.P.) tracks.
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11/07/2018- At its inception, the School of Nursing offered a two-fold curriculum: a three-year program that led to a Certificate of Graduate in Nursing and a five-year curriculum in Arts and Nursing leading to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
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11/06/2018- Officially, Saint Louis University established the School of Nursing in 1928, but its roots trace back 50 years earlier. It was 1872 and St. Louis was in the grasp of a smallpox outbreak. A small group of nuns from the Sisters of St. Mary (now the Franciscan Sisters of Mary), arrived to provide care and comfort in densely populated immigrant neighborhoods.
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02/01/2018- Clinicians sometimes are reluctant to discuss a child’s terminal illness with parents because they’re concerned about the emotional impact of the information. They fear disclosure of prognostic information, especially when there is little chance for cure, is in opposition to hope.