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Applications for Traditional BSN, Fast Track and Pre Nursing Courses are open!

Go to this website to access them: http://nursing.utep.edu/applications

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UTEP stays ahead of the curve even as country sees shortage of nursing jobs for recent grads

Read the full story here: http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/news/local/utep-stays-ahead-curve-even-county-sees-shortage-n/nWCPk/

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Health Sciences and Nursing Students Put Their Skills to Work

Castillo, her mom, Blanca, and her older brother were among hundreds of San Elizario residents who attended last week’s San Elizario Independent School District Fall Health Fair. For the past five years, the school district has collaborated with different organizations, such as The University of Texas at El Paso, to provide residents with free health…

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Fast Track Appreciation Night at Peter Piper Pizza

Fast Track Fundraiser will be on (11/14/12) from 5-9pm at the Peter Piper next to Tinseltown on the Eastside. Please print and bring flyer for that date so we can get 15% of each purchase!Thank You!

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UTEP Nursing Dean Completes Leadership Program

As the American health care system undergoes massive changes, UTEP School of Nursing Dean Elias Provencio-Vasquez, Ph.D., is leading the way in educating nurses to keep up with the standards of 21st century health care. Provencio-Vasquez is one of 20 scholars who recently completed The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Executive Nurse Fellows program, a three-year…

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TNSA Food Drive

Greetings, this is Alejandro Robles from the Texas Nursing Students’ Association. We are currently running a canned food drive to benefit the West Texas Food Bank (A great way to serve the community and just in time for Thanksgiving). We have set up 2 drop-off boxes throughout the SON, with plans to set up a…

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Nursing: A Family Tradition

By Laura L. Acosta UTEP News Service By the time Norma Chavez-Carrillo was 21 years old, she was raising four children and her dream of becoming a nurse instead became a reality for two of her daughters – Chantelle Villareal, a UTEP graduate, and Cynthia Escalante, a graduate of Michigan State University College of Nursing. …

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Graduate Student Registration Spring 2013

Dear Graduate Students: Registration for the Spring 2013 semester for Graduate & Doctoral students opens October 22nd.  Each semester a hold is added to student’s accounts and academic advisors must add waivers to courses and remove the holds.   Please email the course(s) scheduled in your plan of progression for this spring.    You will not be…

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Health Care in Small Communities Has Huge Impact on Students

By Laura L. Acosta UTEP News Service Imagine living in a small farming town surrounded by desert where if you get sick or injured, your only access to emergency medical care is an 80-mile ambulance ride to the nearest city. Nine nursing students at The University of Texas at El Paso learned that for residents…

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Grad Students Fall 2012 Graduation – Important Reminders

On Time  Graduation Application October 5, 2012 $30 Late Graduation Application October 8, 2012 $45 Fall 2012 Printer’s Deadline November 9, 2012 Last Day to apply for Fall Graduation December 12, 2012 Fall  2012 Graduation and Commencement December 15, 2012 Last Day to Submit ALL final materials for fall graduation December 21,  2012 Thesis/Dissertation students…

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