School of nursing news
School of Nursing Professor Surprised with U-M’s Golden Apple Award
Feb 25, 2015The honor is the only student-selected teaching award on campus.
Dr. Stephen Strobbe’s Wednesday morning was off to a routine start when a student presentation in his “Mental Health & Illness Across the Lifespan” class took an unexpected twist. Instead of talking about the material, the students began sharing their appreciation for Dr. Strobbe. Before he knew what was happening, the Golden Apple committee, complete with apple costumes, balloons, flowers, and even Dr. Strobbe’s favorite doughnuts, paraded into the class and announced the news. “I’m moved... Read moreCall for Proposals: UMSN Center Looking for Bold Ideas
Feb 24, 2015$25,000 available for each pilot/feasibility study on chronic diseases.
“We are looking for innovative projects that test new ideas about self-management of chronic disease using complex data,” says Ivo Dinov, PhD, a University of Michigan School of Nursing (UMSN) Associate Professor and co-director of the Center for Complexity and Self-management of Chronic Disease (CSCD). Funded by a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute for Nursing Research (NINR), the CSCD is focused on preventing and managing chronic diseases... Read more
Student Spotlight: Continuing Family Tradition of Service, While Honoring Hispanic Heritage
Feb 10, 2015“I feel like I’ve had great influences from my grandmother in overcoming every obstacle.”
For more than half a century, work has been a constant for Marylou Oliverez Mason. Born into a family of migrant workers, Oliverez Mason began harvesting crops at the age of 4. The family was based in Texas but traveled across the country wherever the work was, including Michigan. She learned to speak English by befriending the children of the farmers to trade Spanish and English words and phrases. Unlike many other children, she begged her father to let her go to school. Finally, when she was 12... Read moreUMSN and U-M School of Public Health to Develop Online Database and Health App
Feb 03, 2015A Herb Ritts Foundation grant provides funding for these resources to help young gay and bisexual men and transgender women navigate community services.
The Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities (SexLab) at the University of Michigan (U-M) has been awarded a two-year, $250,000 grant by the Herb Ritts Foundation to develop an online navigation system for health and social services that are available to young gay and bisexual men and transgender women. The navigation system will provide information about each service, and offer an online path for accessing services at low or no... Read more
Applications Now Being Accepted for UMSN’s Fogarty International Short-Term Postdoctoral Research Training Program
Jan 09, 2015The research training program, in partnership with Thailand’s Praboromarajchanok Institute for Health Workforce Development, focuses on the management and prevention of non-communicable diseases.
The University of Michigan School of Nursing (UMSN) has expanded its collaborations with several government and community organizations in Thailand to establish a training plan in nursing, interdisciplinary, and health systems research. As Thailand has made progress in decreasing infectious diseases, the Southeast Asian country is experiencing an upsurge in chronic... Read moreHappy 2015!
Dec 18, 2014Greetings of the season from Dean Potempa and UMSN, in partnership for a healthier tomorrow.
December Highlights
Dec 09, 2014Media take increasing notice of UMSN expertise and research findings, plus an invitation to submit abstracts for our signature nursing science event.
-- New findings from University of Michigan School of Nursing (UMSN) Assistant Professor Deena Kelly Costa, PhD, RN, highlight the benefit of nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) care in intensive care units (ICUs). Dr. Costa and colleagues examined the association between NP/PA staffing and in-hospital mortality for ICU patients. They found consistent results supporting that NPs/PAs appear to be a safe adjunct... Read moreNew UMSN Center to Focus on Complexity and Self-Management of Chronic Diseases
Nov 24, 2014"When people have chronic diseases, there is complexity; one pill alone isn’t going to help."
“Human beings do not live in isolation either physiologically or psychosocially,” says University of Michigan School of Nursing (UMSN) Professor Debra L. Barton, RN, PhD, AOCN, FAAN, UMSN’s Mary Lou Willard French Professor of Nursing. “Examining one little piece may work in some instances--but when you are talking about people, it can be a waste of time of time because you are not taking it in context with everything else.”
Obesity, cancer, heart disease, allergies, Alzheimer’s... Read moreNovember Highlights
Nov 18, 2014Students celebrate commitment to nursing in annual ceremony, plus faculty expand and develop global collaborations to enhance student opportunities.
--More than 180 University of Michigan School of Nursing (UMSN) sophomores and Second Career students made a public pledge to their future nursing career during the annual Commitment Ceremony. Held at Rackham Auditorium, the event was attended by family and friends, as well as UMSN faculty. The traditional ceremony is an important step in the students' education and career. They recited the modernized Florence Nightingale pledge and... Read moreProtecting the Hearing of Farm and Rural Youths Will Be Goal of New $1 Million Grant at UMSN
Nov 14, 2014Tractors, combines, chainsaws and even pig squeals are just a few of the hazardous noises that farm workers can encounter on a daily basis.
Young adults who work on farms are at a high risk of hearing loss due to frequent exposure to hazardous levels of noise. For many of them, that exposure begins at a very early age. “Many farm youth already have noise-induced hearing loss by the time they’re in high school, so it’s important that we work on hearing conservation from a young age,” says Marjorie C. McCullagh, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC, COHN-S, FAAN, a University of Michigan School of... Read more
