UAMS Benefit Luncheon to Fund Summer Nursing Externships
| LITTLE ROCK – A benefit luncheon for the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will be held 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 1, at the Country Club of Little Rock. All proceeds from the luncheon will fund the Geriatric Nursing Summer Externships for UAMS College of Nursing students. The guest speaker will be David Pryor, dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. The cost of the luncheon is $40 a person. Reservations may be made until Thursday, March 24 by calling 501-686-7987. Students selected for the eight-week summer externship will work with nursing leaders, researchers and educators to learn about options in geriatric nursing. The students will work in the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on The UAMS College of Nursing was selected as one of five universities in the nation to be awarded a UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with five colleges, a graduate school, a medical center, five centers of excellence and a statewide network of regional centers. UAMS has more than 2,200 students and 660 residents and is the state’s largest public employer with almost 9,000 employees. UAMS and its affiliates have an economic impact in UAMS centers of excellence are the