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America's No. 1 Nursing School
For more than 20 years, the University of Washington School of Nursing has been ranked America's No. 1 nursing school, including 17 years atop the U.S. News and World Report list, which began ranking nursing schools
in 1993.
Emphasizing Research
and Teaching
Six degree programs, multiple specialties, continuing education opportunities and world renowned research are part of the UW School of Nursing's goal of addressing society's most pressing challenges in health care. Students: Oliver Liscano and Joann Ucol.
Stay Connected
The School of Nursing is grateful for the support of its outstanding alumni, friends and community partners. Many participate as clinical preceptors, advisers and volunteers, and provide financial support for our students, faculty and programs.
Recognizing Leaders in Nursing
Every year the UW School of Nursing honors local and national leaders for their important contributions to the field of nursing and pays tribute to our community's most accomplished nurses and health care leaders at the annual Nurses Recognition Banquet.
Advancing Nursing Research
With a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and patient care the UW School of Nursing is the No. 3 Nursing School in research funding from the NIH, with six centers of excellence and over 185 active and pending research projects.
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Jerald R. Herting, PhD Research Professor Psychosocial & Community Health Box 358732 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-8732 Email Address: herting@u.washington.edu |
| Dr. Herting has over 12 years of experience conducting research and evaluation in the areas of adolescent drug and alcohol use, mental health, delinquency, and educational achievement. His work includes survey design, instrument development, and alternative statistical models for evaluating program effectiveness. Dr. Herting's recent work has focused on the evaluation of school-based interventions to prevent dropout, suicide risk, substance use/abuse; and of methods to identify high-risk populations for indicated intervention programs. | |
| Related health and demography interests include teenage fertility, contraceptive use, and the role health services play in the adoption of family planning and other health behaviors. Dr. Herting specializes in issues relevant to adolescence (health, alcohol/drug use, mental health, education), social demography (fertility, contraceptive use, adolescent fertility), advanced quantitative methods (structural equation models, loglinear models, demographic methods, measurement, survey research), and evaluation research. | |
| Dr. Herting's CV at the Community of Science Web site | |
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Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program |
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