There’s no better way for smokers to ring in the New Year than to stop smoking. Contributing to more than 480,000 deaths annually in the United States, smoking remains a problem nationwide.  More than 8,000 Arizonans die each year from smoking, and thousands more live with a smoking-related illness. 

In November, University of Arizona College of Nursing Associate Clinical Professor James Reed, DNP, MSN, BSN travelled to a health clinic in El Fuerte, Sinaloa, to take part in 22 life-changing surgical cases.

The University of Arizona College of Nursing honored its fall 2022 graduating class at Centennial Hall on Dec. 15. A total of 221 Wildcat nurses celebrated the successful conclusion to their programs in front of family, friends and faculty.

In June, the American Nurses Association (ANA) Membership Assembly elected UArizona alumna Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, PhD, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, as the association’s next president to represent the interests of the nation’s more than 4.3 million registered nurses. 

UArizona Nursing Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) student Kerry Chou, who will receive his degree at the December 15 Fall Convocation Ceremony, was first inspired to pursue a career in nursing while still in high school. 

As part of a multidisciplinary project between the University of Arizona College of Engineering’s Center to Stream Health in Place (C2SHIP) and the UArizona College of Nursing, Associate Nursing Professor Shu Fen Wung , PhD, MS, RN, ACNP-BC, FAAN recently traveled to Israel to work with Israeli health care innovators in digital health.

Timian Godfrey, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, an assistant clinical professor in the University of Arizona College of Nursing, was recently inducted into the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), a policy-oriented think tank composed of top nursing leaders and honorary health care colleagues elected by their peers. 

When UArizona Nursing DNP student Jesus "JP" Prado accepts his diploma this December, he will be celebrating a year that was marked by not one but three significant achievements: in addition to earning his DNP-PMHNP specialty degree, he was recently promoted to Major in the Air Force Reserves, and received the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for Outstanding and Invaluable Military Service.

Several College of Nursing faculty who also are alumni reflect on how the college and nursing have been transformed over more than six decades.