Memphis nursing partnership’s big impact draws national attention
In 2022, Le Bonheur APRNs provided more than 4,200 hours of clinical opportunities for UTHSC College of Nursing students and mentored 13 bachelor of science in nursing students in pediatric specialty care. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will receive the Exemplary Academic-Practice Partnership Award from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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