School of nursing news
Become a Michigan Nurse, be in demand
Oct 01, 2020The quality of a University of Michigan degree is recognized worldwide. Earning your Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from U-M can open the doors to exciting opportunities upon graduation and throughout the course of your career.
Michigan Nurses are everywhere, pioneering new discoveries in labs and in the field, battling our greatest health challenges on the front lines of patient care, and working to reshape the health care system in executive offices, local communities and even the halls of Congress.
Success that speaks for itselfAlumni Q&A: Robbie Moore (BSN '... Read more
We Dare to improve cancer care beyond our borders
Sep 21, 2020Alumna Laura Haskins (BSN ’11) has never hesitated to change course in pursuit of her passion. She had already earned a bachelor’s in health science from Purdue University when she decided to become a nurse, finding inspiration from her colleagues as a certified nursing assistant at a residential hospice facility.
“I learned so much from my nurse colleagues, and I loved the way that they exemplified nurse advocacy and how nursing combines the personal and the scientific,” Haskins said.
After graduating from U-M’s accelerated BSN program, Haskins worked as an oncology... Read more
We dare to advance palliative care
Sep 02, 2020“Don’t add to the confusion. Palliative care and end of life are not synonymous.”
Confronting that confusion is an objective for the faculty members on the informally assembled but intensely dedicated Palliative Care Team at the University of Michigan School of Nursing. Clinical Assistant Professors Karen Harden, DNP, MS, RN, AOCNS, Deb Price, DNP, MS, RN, and Heidi Mason, RN, DNP, ACNP-BC, along with Clinical Associate Professor April Bigelow, Ph.D., ANP-BC, AGPCNP-BC, have integrated their efforts to improve palliative care education and lead new conversations about the... Read more
Faculty News and Accolades
Jul 14, 2020Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren
2019 Reviewer of the Year from the editors of the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
Melissa Bathish
Gilbert Whitaker Fund for the Improvement of Teaching Grant:Simulated Cardiac Arrest (Code Blue) Training for University of Michigan School of Nursing Undergraduate and Graduate Students Using a High-Fidelity Patient Simulator and Crash Cart
Promoted to co-director of the U-M School of Nursing Clinical Learning Center
Sue Anne Bell
American Nurses... Read more
Alumni News
Jul 14, 2020Thank you to the alumni who shared their latest news and accomplishments with us. And thank you to all of the U-M School of Nursing alumni who have displayed tremendous courage and selflessness caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The future of nursing depends on world-class education and research. In this uncertain time, you can provide critical support to the U-M School of Nursing in a number of ways:
Make a gift to help the School of Nursing address immediate needs.Support important diversity, equity and... Read more
Tweets, Posts and Notes
Jul 14, 2020Members of our U-M School of Nursing family took to social media to congratulate the Class of 2020, honor nurses on the front lines or simply show support for one another during challenging times.
Whether you're sharing an accolade, view on a nursing-related topic, memory, suggestion or career update, we love hearing from you. Email us at [email protected] or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram.
Today, we’re featuring 2020 graduate Abby Walters! Abby is a member of our trombone section and will graduate with a degree in Nursing. Post-... Read more
Ensuring protection for the front lines
Jul 14, 2020Written by: Alex Bienkowski
The COVID-19 pandemic has tested America’s health care workforce unlike any crisis in recent history. Nearly 600 U.S. health workers and counting have died of COVID-19, and a shocking shortage of personal protective equipment has likely contributed to those losses.
In the early stages of the U.S. outbreak, Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing Chris Friese, Ph.D., RN, AOCN®, FAAN, reconvened with six colleagues from the 2018 National Academy of Medicine Study Committee on the Use of Elastomeric Respirators in Health Care to issue... Read more
Q&A with Dean Hurn
Jul 13, 2020In this special digital edition of Panacea, we focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and the multifaceted response from the U-M School of Nursing community. We begin our coverage with a Q&A featuring Dean Patricia D. Hurn to hear her thoughts on the pandemic and how nursing is specially equipped to lead our health care system through this historic public health crisis and beyond. She also takes a closer look at our community’s collaborative efforts to move the U-M School of Nursing’s mission forward in the midst of the pandemic, and explains why she believes nurses are well-positioned... Read more
We Dare...
Jan 30, 2020Eddie and Tamara Villavicencio’s 12-year marriage has been anything but ordinary, but things got even more interesting when the husband and wife became classmates at the U-M School of Nursing.
The two met in Ensenada, Mexico, while working with a Christian missionary group. Eddie, who was born and raised in Mexico, was already working as a nurse when he met Tamara, who grew up in Williamston, Michigan. The two became close during their missionary work, fell in love and got married.
They remained in Mexico for the next few years and had two children. In 2015, they... Read more
Changing the Innovation Conversation
Jan 30, 2020Innovation is often accompanied by thoughts of venture capitalists, “Shark Tanks” and Silicon Valley startups. In the health care field, nurses are often overlooked as innovators — even among themselves. But at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, the Healthcare Innovation Impact Program (HiiP) can provide a pathway to a different perspective.
“Innovation is usually carried out by those who are deeply immersed in their work — the people who are in the trenches,” said Dean Patricia Hurn, Ph.D., RN. “That’s why nurses are so primed to be innovators. They are in the center of... Read more
