Past accolades
Winter 2015








Fall 2014









Faculty members Drs. Lisa Kane Low, Marjorie McCullagh, and Denise Saint Arnault have been selected for induction as fellows in the American Academy of Nursing. They join UMSN's 30 active professorial and emeritus faculty who are members of the Academy. Candidates require the sponsorship of two current fellows and are reviewed by a panel of fellows for evidence of significant contributions to nursing and health care. The new fellows will be inducted during the AAN’s annual conference, to be held in mid-October in Washington, DC. After induction, the new fellows will be able to use FAAN credentials.



Clinical Assistant Professor Donna J. Marvicsin, PhD, PNP-BC, CDE, was selected as one of the “25 Top Pediatric Nursing Professors” by NursePractitionerSchools.com. “Every professor on this list is a committed mentor and educator, offering something truly special to every student they touch,” says website editor Barry Franklin. Selection for inclusion included peer recognition, continued practice and teaching of advanced level courses. Clinical Assistant Professor Michelle Pardee, DNP, FNP-BC, and Professor Emerita Joanne M. Pohl, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, FAANP, were selected as “25 Top Nurse Practitioner Program Professors.” Criteria included excellence in national publications, professor level and their role as professors in a top rated nurse practitioner program.
Spring/Summer 2014









Clinical Assistant Professor Christine Anderson, PhD, RN, has been selected for an Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Journal Writers Contest Award. Dr. Anderson co-authored "Evaluation of OR Staffing and Postoperative Patient Outcomes" with AkkeNeel Talsma, PhD, RN, FAAN; HyoGeun Geun, MPH, RN; Ying Guo, PhD; and Darrell A. Campbell, MD. Articles are reviewed by AORN journal editors, review panel members and editorial board members. Dr. Anderson received the award at AORN’s annual conference in Chicago in early April.
Winter 2014

Ph.D. candidate Ann Annis Emeott has been awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship supports doctoral students who are working on their dissertation and are “unusually creative, ambitious and risk-taking.” Emeott’s research will assess the distribution and trend of clinical patient encounters among interdisciplinary health professionals in nationwide VA primary care sites. She plans to test whether the involvement of associate providers, such as nurses, pharmacists, social workers, dieticians, in care delivery is associated with medical home implementation, access to care, and healthcare utilization. Emeott’s research mentor is Associate Professor Marcelline Harris.





Fall 2013







Spring/Summer 2013
Assistant Professor Jason Mitchell, Ph.D., MPH, received a three-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for, “Development of a HIV prevention toolkit for at-risk HIV-negative male couples.” The award, worth more than $700,000, will be used to build on Dr. Mitchell’s previous research related to the development of agreements among couples to help decrease their HIV risk while promoting HIV testing. The three phases of this study are to develop, pilot, and refine a web-based toolkit using interviews and focus groups among other methods. The goal is to assist couples in forming sexual agreements that include testing for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV, decrease high-risk behavior, and raise awareness about HIV prevention and testing resources.
UMSN is proud to recognize the high pass rate of our students who recently took the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). At 97%, UMSN’s rate far exceeds the national average of 83%. In addition, it’s higher that the State of Michigan’s 86% pass rate. These numbers represent NCLEX results for the 2013 Second Quarter, April 1- June 30. The NCLEX is the required test for graduates to receive their professional nursing license. Congratulations to the students and to the faculty who provide an excellent education for UMSN undergraduates!





Winter 2013


DNP student Bernadette Carroll received a grant from U-M’s Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies for her project, Aggression in Healthcare Organizations. Carroll’s research interest includes understanding the variables that contribute to workplace violence in the healthcare setting. Her goal is to gain a better understanding of effective interventions to mitigate the number of incidences.












Fall 2012
Boqin Xie, a UMSN PhD student, received a Rackham International Student Fellowship Award in November 2012. Recipients must have a strong academic record, be making good progress toward the degree, and demonstrate outstanding academic and professional promise. Xie’s area of interest is improving health-related quality of life in men and women with heart failure. Her research interests include how cognitive impairment affects health behavior and self-care management in patients with heart failure, as well as strategies to improve cognitive impairment. She plans to conduct a systematic review of resources available to heart failure patients in China, obtain data from patients to determine the severity of impairment, and develop a potential intervention. Xie’s research mentor is Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FAHA, FAAN.





Spring/Summer 2012





Hannah Richardson, a 2012 BSN graduate of the School of Nursing, has received this year’s Outstanding Honors Project Senior Poster Award. Her winning research paper is entitled, "Nurse Communication Regarding Position During Second Stage Labor of Nulliparous Women." Hannah’s study seeks to identify whether a lack of translation exists between evidence-based practice and actual practice surrounding the issue of nursing communication on positioning during second stage labor. Assistant Professor Dr. Lisa Kane Low served as her advisor on the project. A group of impartial faculty reviewed senior honors students’ research papers and determined Hannah’s project to be the winner based on criteria such as writing quality, clarity of presentation of ideas, depth of analysis, and originality.



Winter 2012



Susanne Quallich, a PhD student in the U-M School of Nursing, served as co-editor for the first ever Advanced Practice issue of Urological Nursing, the official journal of the Society of Urological Nurses and Associates (SUNA). The journal is written by and for urologic nurses and associates, and seeks to present the latest advances in urologic nursing practice. Susanne also co-authored the editorial for this issue, published in December 2011. In addition, she authored the first practice analysis of nurse practitioners working in urology. Her research paper, “A survey evaluating the current role of the nurse practitioner in urology,” was accepted for presentation at the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) conference in June 2012.
