Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Northeastern University partner on cancer specific nursing education program
New England Council members Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Northeastern University have partnered on a new nursing education program to train nurses to care for cancer patients. This is the first program of this type for Dana-Farber.
This program aims to address the rise in cancer rates and the general nursing shortage. The idea is to build a cancer-specific nursing pipeline by educating early-career nurses. Nurses at Dana-Farber in the Phyllis F. Cantor Center for Research in Nursing and Patient Care Services will be given academic roles at Northeastern. So far, Marilyn Hammer, PhD, RN, director of the Cantor Center, has become a professor; Rachel Pozzer, PhD, RN, associate director of the center’s Bioinformatics and Technology Core within the Precision Health Symptom Science Program, has become an assistant professor.
Dana-Farber and Northeastern expect two more nurse scientists to join the faculty within the following year.
“This exciting new chapter builds on the strong partnership between Dana-Farber and Northeastern University, creating innovative opportunities to train the next generation of nurses and advance nursing science and practice,” said Dr. Benjamin Ebert, president and CEO of Dana-Farber.
The New England Council congratulates these two organizations on this exciting partnership and their commitment to advancing healthcare practices.
Read more via Boston Business Journal, Northeastern Global News, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.