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Joan Liaschenko is called upon often to help patients, families and health care teams navigate complex and emotionally-charged decisions about care. As director of the Ethics Consultation Service for the University of Minnesota Medical Center, she relies on the expertise of colleagues from multiple disciplines.

Associate professor Jeanne Pfeiffer explains how to avoid germs when those around you are ill.. “We say distance is a barrier,” she said. “When someone isn’t feeling well but they’re not staying home, we like to keep 3 feet of distance.”

Planting Seeds of Innovation was designed to help nurses to play a more active role in inventing and tweaking products, partly because they’re already heavy users of medical equipment.

One-third of seniors over 65 fall each year, causing more than 2.5 million injuries treated in ERs. Jean Wyman, a professor of nursing at the University of Minnesota, said she's seen growing attention to falls from academic and government researchers.

After serving overseas as an IT technician on the USS Ross, Karl Gores found his calling in nursing and is currently enrolled in our Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

Parents may be too busy to cook family dinners, but that isn’t the only reason they turn to microwaveable frozen meals.