College of Nursing & Health Care Professions

GCU students have heard about hunger and poverty, and some have experienced it. An event on campus on Thursday is about to bring them face-to-face with these critical global issues.

A student in the family nurse practitioner program in the College of Nursing and Health Care Professions will be awarded a $6,000 scholarship next spring, courtesy of the Health Care Clinics at select Walgreens.

Craig Becker may have prevented a tragedy by using the lifesaving Heimlich maneuver — learned last summer at a GCU athletic training camp — on a choking man at a Scottsdale restaurant.

The College of Nursing and Health Care Professions has partnered with International Service Learning, a Texas-based nonprofit organization, to bring up to three teams of students and faculty to Puerto Viejo in northeastern Costa Rica.

The newest cohort program in GCU’s College of Nursing and Health Care Professions is located across the street from Banner Boswell Medical Center and represents a partnership with Banner Health. It is the seventh cohort in CONHCP.

With health issues facing the baby-boom generation and the Affordable Care Act changing the way services are delivered, the University’s program is designed to address a new age of health care.

Dr. Marla Weston, CEO of the American Nurses Association in Washington, D.C., dropped by GCU to talk with faculty and students in the College of Nursing and Health Care Professions about the future of nurses as health-care reform and technology advance.