School of nursing news
Introducing iCON, Michigan's New Health Services & Life Skills App for Sexual & Gender Minority Youth
Jan 14, 2016The Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities (SexLab), based in the schools of Nursing and Public Health at the University of Michigan, has launched an innovative online resource aimed at linking sexual and gender minority youth to services in southeast Michigan. Funded by a grant from the Herb Ritts Foundation, the new app – called iCON – provides a database of information on health and social services that are available to youth throughout the region. The idea behind iCON is simple: many sexual and gender minority youth either don’t know what services are available to them, or worry... Read more
UMSN Faculty Member Selected for Clinician Scholars Program Now Open to Nurses
Jan 12, 2016Nurses have a new opportunity to strengthen leadership skills and make a greater impact in health care through the newly revamped National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP). The new version of the program includes doctorally-prepared nurses training alongside physicians.
University of Michigan School of Nursing (UMSN) Clinical Associate Professor Sue Anne Bell, PhD, FNP-BC, was selected for the first cohort beginning in July 2016. “Health care is provided in a team based environment,” says Dr. Bell. “So it makes perfect sense that innovative solutions to pressing health problems... Read more
Future Navy Nurses Get Clinical and Life Lessons from Veterans
Dec 22, 2015“We didn’t ask to be assigned to the VA,” says Helen Galliani, a University of Michigan School of Nursing (UMSN) sophomore. “It just worked out that way, and it’s been great to learn more about veterans and their health issues, especially since that is part of our future.”
Galliani, from Evanston, IL, and classmate Lindsay Grzegorzewski from Cincinnati, OH, are both part of U-M’s Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC). This semester they are fulfilling their nursing clinical requirements at the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System. It’s a fortuitous fusion of their... Read more
December 2015 Highlights: An Amazing Gift for UMSN, Plus Students Give Back and Faculty Share New Findings
Dec 09, 2015GIVING BLUEDAY
U-M’s second annual Give Blueday is being hailed as a resounding success, with the School of Nursing receiving the largest gift campus-wide. A $1 million donation was given to support nursing student scholarships. In addition, a $50,000 gift will support work with victims of human trafficking, and dozens more donors gave to support school and student needs. "We appreciate every gift," said Dean Kathleen Potempa. "We have special gratitude for the donations that are a lasting legacy for the future of nursing and health care." Preliminary estimates show the day’s gifts to UMSN... Read more
Wanderlust Deferred: A UMSN Surgical Nurse Discovers It’s Never Too Late to Seek Adventure in Africa (with video)
Dec 07, 2015KUMASI, Ghana---Working as a Peace Corps volunteer was something Bianca Waller, R.N., dreamed about doing when she was a nursing student at the University of Michigan (BSN, ’99). But after graduation, her life took a different turn. “I found a wonderful man I wanted to marry,” she said. “I definitely wanted to have children. I just didn’t know that I’d be able to keep going in that type of environment with the kind of life I wanted to have.” The chances of going overseas seemed even more remote when she settled into her career. Waller discovered her passion was working as a... Read more
UMSN Guest Speaker Shares Personal Story About His Patient Experience
Dec 01, 2015“Don’t limit what your patients may or may not be able to do.”
University of Michigan School of Nursing sophomores received a heartfelt lesson about how their care of future patients can make a lasting impact. Guest speaker James “Pat” Ferguson, PhD, shared how a severe spinal cord injury changed his life when he was 21 years old and about to report for active duty in the Air National Guard. Dr. Ferguson was in an ATV accident and broke four vertebrae, becoming a quadriplegic. Pneumonia, collapsed lungs, suicidal thoughts and intense muscle spasms are among the many complications Dr... Read more
2015 November Highlights: New research funding and findings, and shared recognition for global education
Nov 19, 2015New Research Funding
--“To become a nation of women with healthy bladders and reduce high public and private medical care costs, a seismic shift is necessary in how we approach knowledge development about bladder health,” says Associate Professor Janis Miller, PhD, RN, APRN, FAAN. That’s why Dr. Miller will use a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead an interdisciplinary team of UM researchers to better understand what makes a healthy bladder beyond simply the absence of disease. The researchers will focus on the knowledge gap between healthy bladders... Read more
$1.5 Million Grant for Leading Interprofessional Collaborative Practice for Underserved Populations
Nov 04, 2015Nurses will take the lead in a new program designed to improve chronic care coordination for underrepresented and underserved populations. University of Michigan School of Nursing (UMSN) will expand its partnership with Community Health and Social Services (CHASS) Center by implementing a new program for Registered Nurse Chronic Care Coordinators to lead interdisciplinary teams, which include MDs, pharmacists, support staff, and social workers.
“The nurse leaders will work with the teams to develop a sustainable model of interprofessional care that improve chronic care outcomes,”says... Read more
Nursing Participates in U-M's Interprofessional Education Town Hall
Nov 03, 2015Students from across the health science schools met with faculty leaders to discuss future directions for interprofessional education at the University of Michigan during a late October town hall meeting.
Over 100 students, faculty and staff participated in the event, with representation from the School of Dentistry, School of Kinesiology, Medical School, School of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, School of Public Health, School of Social Work, and School of Health Professions and Studies (Flint). The event was organized by the Michigan Center for Interprofessional... Read moreOct 2015 Highlights: UMSN faculty receive highest honors in health science, plus new findings, funding and collaborations showcase nursing contributions to patient care
Oct 23, 2015High Honors
For in the second straight year, University of University of Michigan School of Nursing (UMSN) faculty is represented in new elections to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly known as the Institute of Medicine. NAM membership is one of the highest honors in health and medicine. U-M now has 54 past and present members of the NAM on faculty. UMSN’s Marita Titler, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and chair of UMSN’s Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership, was selected for her extensive contributions to nursing science. She focuses on outcomes effectiveness and... Read more
