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Minnesota Nursing Magazine
Spring-Summer 2024
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Feature
DNP student Mattie Ellenson named Emerging Rural Health Leader
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Center News, Center for Nursing Informatics
Nursing informatics, innovation empower nurses
From the Dean
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Connie White Delaney
Dear Friends,
115 years ago, Richard Olding Beard led the effort to found a school of nursing at the University of Minnesota in what would become the first such school established within an institution of higher learning. Beard believed that…