The Nurses Alumni Organization (NAO) recognized two alumni at its annual Homecoming brunch. Dr. Michelle Byrne, ’79, MS ’86 received the 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award, and Elisha Smith ’14 received the 2017 Outstanding Badger Nursing Award.
Year: 2018
Beyond the Clinic
School of Nursing alumna and street-medicine volunteer finds renewed purpose in retirement. After a 43-year career, Nan Wild MS ’99 was ready to retire. With decades of practice as both an RN and a nurse …
Taking It All In
Emily Schumacher graduated in 2010 and entered practice in an oncology, neurology, and neurosurgery unit at American Family Children’s Hospital. Three years later, she enrolled part-time in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program, which she will complete this spring. “I found what I was supposed to do. It was nursing,” she says. “It was a combination of all the things I love.”
School Supports Call for Bipartisan Effort to Prevent Mass Shootings
February 28, 2018 – The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing has joined 96 other organizations in signing a letter by the American Academy of Nursing calling for Congress to create a bipartisan National Commission …
Conference Highlights Connection Between Improved Health and a Diversified Workforce
The 2nd Nursing Workforce Diversity Conference on February 7, 2018, explored ways to deliver more culturally congruent care, strategies for employers that want to recruit and retain diverse nurses, and how the school’s holistic admissions process will diversify future nursing classes. A career fair connected students and job-seeking nurses with more than 20 area employers and community organizations that are actively hiring.
New Drug Therapies
Each year the FDA approves many new drugs for a wide variety of diseases. This year’s Fall Distance Learning Experience will explore the latest therapies for diabetes, oncology, MS, biosimilars, pediatrics, HIV, infectious disease and …
Visiting Scholar Yuanyuan Zhang studies U.S. nurse scholar programs
The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing is pleased to welcome visiting scholar Yuanyuan Zhang, who will study transition-to-practice programs for new nurses. Zhang, a doctoral student at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University …
Free Conference Offers Strategies for Enhancing Diversity in the Nursing Workforce
January 2, 2018 — The UW-Madison School of Nursing is hosting a free half-day conference on Wednesday, February 7, designed to transfer best practices and spark new ideas about the value of diversity and inclusion …