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More than 60 first-year students in UCLA Nursing’s Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) Program received their white coats on Saturday, May 14, a tradition to symbolize entering advanced clinical practicum with compassion, care, and collaboration while applying knowledge and skills.

UCLA School of Nursing professor Felicia Hodge, DrPH, has been inducted into the inaugural cohort of the UCLA Faculty Mentoring Honor Society.

Kristen Choi, PhD, RN, FAAN, an assistant professor in the UCLA School of Nursing, is one of 12 nurse scientists accepted to the third cohort of the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators. This fellowship program, funded by a $37.5 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, recognizes early- to mid-career nursing scholars and innovators with a high potential to accelerate leadership in nursing research, practice, education, policy, and entrepreneurship.

Bianca Salvetti, a doctoral student in the UCLA School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program, has been named a finalist in the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and MolinaCares’ Health Equity Challenge.

Sasha Karlin is an assistant in the UCLA School of Nursing simulation lab, where she not only helps manage inventory, but also arranges mannequins and equipment so that nursing students can practice responding to various medical scenarios.