Favorite Charity Contest to Support the Joplin Tornado Disaster

  Standbridge College announces the quarterly Favorite Charity Contest where students, faculty and staff are encouraged to submit their favorite charity and why the Stanbridge community should contribute to its mission. This quarter, Stanbridge College would like to support the town of Joplin, Missouri as it recovers from the devastating tornado hits in May. Please […]

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Home care program for elderly improves outcomes, study finds

A study in the journal Nursing Outlook found that a home-based care program for the elderly called “Aging in Place,” which integrates personalized health services and nursing care coordination, improved outcomes and reduced costs compared with assisted home living and nursing home care. Program participants also had improvements in their mental and physical health, data […]

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URGENT APPEAL! Volunteers needed to serve the homeless!

  Event: Stanbridge College Volunteering to Serve Homeless Date: Saturday June 11, 2011 Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm Location: Lighthouse Outreach Ministries: 1885 Anaheim St. Costa Mesa, CA 92627 Registration: Current students register online or email [email protected] Stanbridge College is sending out an urgent appeal for volunteers to help on Saturday, June 11 at the Lighthouse Outreach Ministries […]

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Stanbridge College Receives National Recognition for Community Service, Named to President’s Honor Roll

Stanbridge College Receives National Recognition for Community Service, Named to President’s Honor Roll

For the second consecutive year, Stanbridge College has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The Honor Roll recognizes exemplary service to America’s communities and is the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and […]

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Stanbridge College Raises Over $2600 for ShelterBox and Japan Relief Project!

Stanbridge College Raises Over $2600 for ShelterBox and Japan Relief Project!

In April and May, Stanbridge College students raised $2,636.52 for ShelterBox, an international disaster relief charity that delivers emergency shelter, warmth and dignity to people affected by disaster worldwide, to provide support for the victims of the Japanese tsunami and earthquake. Nursing students participated in Jeans Week, a fundraiser that allows students to wear jeans […]

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‘Teach-back’ to Improve Patients’ Understanding

It is essential that nurses never assume that their patients understand anything you say. It is imperative to actually confirm that a patient knows what to do when they get home, regardless of whether we think they do, or even if we think we did a good job of explaining it.  Read more on patient […]

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Stanbridge College REACHes Out to Serve the Homeless at Lighthouse Ministries

On Saturday May 21, the Stanbridge community gathered at the Lighthouse Outreach Ministries, the local outreach ministry of Mariners Church in Irvine, California, to help serve our homeless with lunch. In addition to volunteering time and effort, Stanbridge College provided funds to host the event as well as one-day bus passes to the people in […]

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The care and feeding of digital certificates

In a recent article, Help Net Security defines the uses of digital certificates and the need to manage certificates in the Enterprise.  Starting with an easy to understand explanation of how certificates prove identity of servers and enable encryption, originally for the Secure Sockets Layer of HTTPS, but now expanded to other servers, email between […]

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Nurses are key to patient safety initiatives

The health industry  celebrates National Patient Safety Awareness Week the first week of March, and nurses play a key role in patient-safety initiatives. Nurses use tools such as checklists, electronic health records and bar code scanners to improve patient safety and also rely on their knowledge and daily patient surveillance to assess and care for […]

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