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Featured Resources and Initiatives
Palliative Care: Conversations Matter®
A campaign to increase the use of palliative care for children and teens living with serious illnesses.
NINR Director’s Lecture Series
A lecture series bringing the nation’s top nurse scientists to the NIH campus to share their work and interests with a transdisciplinary audience.
Stories of Discovery
Learn how nursing research is paving the way to improve patient outcomes.
NINR Innovative Questions Initiative
An initiative to encourage new thinking and creativity in nursing science from the broader scientific community and general public.
NINR Strategic Plan: Advancing Science, Improving Lives
A plan detailing the Institute’s priorities for the conduct and support of future nursing science.
Research Highlights
Highlights of recent research accomplishments from the community of NINR-supported scientists across the U.S.
MEET THE NINR ACTING DIRECTOR
Dr. Ann Cashion
Ann Cashion, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Acting Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and Scientific Director of the NINR Division of Intramural Research. She is a well-known scientist and leader in the field of nursing science with expertise in genetic markers that predict clinical outcomes.
From 2011-2013, Dr. Cashion served as the Senior Advisor to the Office of the Director and Acting Scientific Director before being appointed Scientific Director in November 2013. Dr. Cashion was named NINR Acting Deputy Director in January 2018 and NINR Acting Director in September 2018.
NURSING SCIENCE IN ACTION
Stories of Discovery: Changing Patient Outcomes and the Practice of Hospice Care
NINR-supported scientist Dr. Melissa Aldridge of New York’s Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has become nationally known for her research into the big data of hospice care in America.
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