Class notes

Caroline Rosdahl, BSN ’60, was a panelist in the College of Liberal Arts event Trailblazers: A Celebration of Women in the “Pride of Minnesota.”

Jill Guttormson, PhD ’11, MS ’05, was named dean of the Marquette University College of Nursing.

Shanda Demorest, DNP ’17, BSN ’13, published Climate, Health, and Nursing Tool (CHANT): A confirmatory factor analysis in Public Health Nursing.

Shanda Demorest, DNP ’17, BSN ’13, and Katie Huffling, DNP ’21, collaborated on the Nurses Climate Challenge, a project with Health Care Without Harm and the Alliance of Nurses for Health Environments. The initiative met its target of educating 50,000 health professionals on climate and health by 2022.

Kristin Verhoeven, DNP ’19, BSN ’14, started a new role as the co-director of psychiatry, clinical operations supervisor at Boynton Mental Health.

Abigail Frith, DNP ’22, MN ’15, started a new role as a neurology nurse practitioner at Park Nicollet/Methodist Hospital.

Anthony Weis, DNP ’22, accepted an informatics specialist position at Mayo Clinic.

David Wrobleski, DNP ’22, MN ’16, presented a poster at the American Psychiatric Nursing Association conference and won second place for practice posters.

George Hirschboeck, DNP ’20, started his practice as an independent CRNA in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. He serves at four hospitals and with four other CRNAs to help provide call coverage at sites in rural southwest Minnesota, including OB services, general surgery, orthopedics, ENT, endoscopy and cataracts.

Ryne Wilson, DNP ’22, was a featured panelist at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s conference on Best Practices and Policies for Addressing the Health Needs of LGBTQ+ Cancer Patients and Survivors.

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