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CDC awards national association of school nurses $1.3 million contract to develop school nurse-led system to conduct active national surveillance for students who are chronically absent
As a junior in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, Allison Trask worked with kinesiology, biology and public health students to develop a group exercise program for elders in Uganda. The program, called Furaharakati, aims to improve bone and joint pain through weight-bearing exercises.
Nurse and health care leaders convened in Minneapolis for the seventh Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science Conference to advance a national action plan to ensure that nursing data are captured and available in sharable, comparable formats for clinicians, researchers, policy makers and others to advance person-centered care and improve health outcomes.
Assistant Professor Rozina Bhimani, PhD, DNP, APRN,FNP-BC, CNE, has been awarded a grant from the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses’ Rehabilitation Nursing Foundation for her research, Effects of Mobilization Patterns on Spasticity Symptom Cluster: Understanding Functional Outcomes.
Former Gophers swimmer Chloe Portela is using the Master of Nursing program to realize her childhood career ambition.
The Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care selected the University of Minnesota as its first place submission for the National Improvement Challenge on Safe Reduction of Primary Cesarean Birth.
(Twin Cities Business, July 5) The University of Minnesota Nursing School is furthering its entrepreneurial direction by teaming up with a digital health business incubator to commercialize its prototype smartphone app for expectant parents of babies with heart defects.
The American Public Health Association (APHA) awarded its 2019 Junior Investigator Award to Assistant Professor Melissa Horning, PhD, RN, PHN. The Junior Investigator Award is selected through blind review by the association’s research committee and honors an early-career (NIH definition) Public Health Nursing Section member's work since completing a doctoral education.
The School of Nursing Alumni Society named the recipients of its annual awards – Rising Star, Distinguished Alumni Humanitarian and Excellence in Innovation – at the All School Reunion in April.
Associate Professor Carolyn Porta was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Additional inductees are Kuei-Min Chen, Helga Jonsdottir, Barbara Tomczyk, Martha Hughesdon Turner and Richard Westphal.