Purdue School of Nursing

09/19/2026

We’ve been celebrating Healthcare Simulation Week here at Purdue Nursing, but we couldn’t let the week end without also recognizing Nursing Professional Development Week, which is this week too! 💛🖤

Sept. 13–19 recognizes nursing professional development and the important role continued learning plays throughout a nurse’s career.

A nursing education doesn’t end at graduation. Nurses continue building their knowledge and skills, pursuing certifications and advanced education, taking on new roles and finding new ways to improve patient care throughout their careers.

Nursing professional development practitioners help support that growth, creating opportunities for nurses to continue learning, developing and leading at every stage of their careers.

At Purdue Nursing, we’re proud to prepare students for a profession where learning never stops, and to recognize those who help nurses continue to grow long after graduation.

Happy Nursing Professional Development Week!

09/18/2026

A speed tour of our simulation manikins! 🏃‍♀️💨

We’re wrapping up Healthcare Simulation Week with a quick introduction to some of the “patients” our Purdue Nursing students get to know pretty well. 💛🖤

As we prepare for our new home, you can help support the technology and equipment that will provide hands-on learning experiences for future Boilermaker nurses.

💛🖤 Support the future of Purdue Nursing: https://bit.ly/4gADiuu
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09/17/2026

It’s Healthcare Simulation Week! 💛🖤

Come along with our Sim Scholars on a tour of the spaces where Purdue Nursing students currently learn, practice and build their clinical skills through simulation.

But this is our last semester in these spaces! Next semester, Purdue Nursing will move into our new home, with expanded simulation and skills lab spaces, new technology and even more opportunities for hands-on learning.

We can’t wait to show you what’s next. And you can help us equip these new spaces for future generations of Boilermaker nurses.

💛🖤 Support the future of Purdue Nursing: https://bit.ly/4gADiuu
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09/16/2026

It’s Healthcare Simulation Week! 💛🖤

Today, Amy Nagle, clinical associate professor and director of the Center for Nursing Education and Simulation, shares a closer look at how simulation helps prepare Purdue Nursing students for clinical practice.

Through simulation, students can practice skills, strengthen clinical judgment and build confidence in a safe learning environment before applying what they’ve learned in patient care settings.

And with Purdue Nursing preparing to move into its new home, the future of simulation education is especially exciting. New technology, equipment and expanded simulation spaces will create even more opportunities for hands-on learning.

🎥 Hear from Amy about the role simulation plays in a Purdue Nursing education and what’s ahead for our students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx3y906-Lik

💛🖤 Support the future of Purdue Nursing: https://bit.ly/4gADiuu

09/15/2026

Purdue Nursing’s Erin Hoying recently shared her expertise with Woman’s World to help families start the school year on a healthy note. 💛🖤

In the article, Hoying offers practical back-to-school health advice for parents, from preventing the spread of germs and knowing when a sick child should stay home to prioritizing sleep, balanced meals, annual physicals and vaccinations.

Her advice includes one important reminder as classrooms fill up again: Hand sanitizer doesn’t replace good handwashing, particularly when it comes to certain stomach viruses.

Read more of Hoying’s tips for a healthy school year in Woman’s World: https://www.womansworld.com/life/family/kids-health-back-to-school-guide-for-parents

09/14/2026

Get vaccinated and stay healthy! Registration is now open for no-cost vaccine clinics, happening Sept. 16 and Oct. 20, at the France A. Córdova Recreational Sports Center. Vaccines including flu, meningitis B, hepatitis A/B, MMR-II, Tdap/tetanus, COVID-19 and more will be available. The clinic is open to Purdue University students, staff, faculty and their family members (ages 11 and up) as well as to the community.
✅ Register: https://bit.ly/3V5Bv6D
📆 Sept. 16 and Oct. 20
⏰ 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
📍 France A. Córdova Recreational Sports Center, Gold and Black Gyms

This event is being offered by Purdue University Public Health and the Purdue University Pharmacy.

09/12/2026

We’ve been calling it the Nursing and Pharmacy Education Building for a long time, but it’s time to learn a new name! 💛🖤

The future home of the Purdue School of Nursing will officially be known as Dauch Hall of Nursing, while the College of Pharmacy portion of the building will be named Darr-Chaney Hall of Pharmacy.

The names recognize the extraordinary generosity of the Dauch and Chaney families, whose support is helping make this transformational new space for nursing and pharmacy education possible.

For Purdue Nursing, Dauch Hall of Nursing will soon be home to state-of-the-art learning spaces where students can develop their skills, learn alongside one another and prepare to care for patients and communities for generations to come.

So, goodbye “NPEB.” 👋 We’re getting ready to call Dauch Hall of Nursing home!

09/10/2026

Purdue Nursing’s Jan Tipton is bringing her expertise in oncology and years of community outreach with LTHC Homeless Services to an interdisciplinary effort focused on smoking cessation and lung cancer screening among people experiencing homelessness. 💛🖤

Tipton, a clinical associate professor, is collaborating with Purdue Public Health researchers Tracy Case and Natalia Rodriguez and Dr. Nasser Hanna of the Indiana University School of Medicine. Their research found that approximately 70% of nearly 150 unhoused individuals surveyed in Lafayette and Indianapolis use to***co — but many are interested in quitting and receiving lung cancer screenings.

Tipton has worked alongside Purdue Nursing students to provide wellness screenings for LTHC guests for years. That experience is helping inform the team’s work to connect individuals with education, smoking cessation resources and potentially lifesaving lung cancer screenings.

We’re excited to see nursing expertise and long-standing community partnerships contributing to an interdisciplinary effort addressing an important health disparity.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3UF2kkZ

09/09/2026

Purdue doesn’t just promise affordability — we deliver, through 14 years straight of frozen tuition. 🚂

This is just one of the reasons we were recently named the No. 2 best-value public university in the U.S. by

09/08/2026