Jill Shepherd served in the US Military as a Combat Medic in the Utah National Guard, while earning her degree in Nursing at Southern Utah University. She has done outstanding...
College of Nursing Assistant Professor Ann Hutton’s experience with a suicidal young father more than 50 years ago set her on a path of caring for the mentally ill and...
From HPV vaccination rates to the causes of pediatric asthma, University of Utah nurse scientists are delving into areas of research that will change health care. That work earned the...
The campaign to vaccinate girls and boys against cancer-causing HPV has faced resistance from the start. College of Nursing professor Deanna Kepka is digging into immunization records to find out...
This month, the college opened a new display, the “Legacy of Nursing” collection on the third floor, and honored Kaufman, who retired in 2012, for her efforts to collect and...
A deadline looms over scientific researchers around the country: Next year, everything from bloodspots to biopsy tissue will be considered a "human specimen" requiring patient consent before it can be...
Over the past decade, Father Rick Lawson has supported the College of Nursing with scholarships and building funds. Now, he has focused on faculty recruitment and retention.
Looking back on 30 years as a nurse and teacher, 2015 College of Nursing Distinguished Alumna Jan Thompson says her years in Utah shaped the rest of her career. Her...
College of Nursing biomedical informatics professor Kathy Sward, along with a team of researchers from three other University departments, has received a $5.5 million grant from the National Institutes of...
The career of Janice L. Thompson, RN, PhD, is marked by community engaged action research and teaching in graduate and undergraduate nursing programs. After 22 years at the University of...
Many College of Nursing students have been and will continue to be impacted by the generosity and commitment of the Dee family and the Lawrence T. and Janet T. Dee...
This year's Dare to Care Awardee: Rhonda Miller-Ernest. When Ronda was 12 years of age her mother died from a preventable death. Even though death is imminent at some time...
Keynote Speaker: Diane Carlson Evans, a former Army combat nurse and Vietnam veteran, founded the Vietnam Women's Memorial to pay tribute to and to memorialize the more than 265,000 women...
Communication between poison control centers and emergency departments is still old school: Doctors and nurses scribble notes down on scraps of paper and try to translate what the poison control...
Listen to two riveting interviews by the Scope, University of Utah Health Sciences Radio about nurses in the battlefield. On October 30, 2014, we welcomed Diane Carlson Evans, a former...
Professor and Transcultural Scholar Dr. Lauren Clark is featured in a podcast discussion with Dr. Norma Cueller, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transcultural Nursing. The discussion reviews Dr. Clark's article...
Assistant Professor Lauri Linder, PhD, APRN, COPN, clinical nurse specialist for Cancer Transplant Center at Primary Children's Hospital, and lead investigator helps empower symptom management for kids with cancer through...
The College of Nursing's Care Management Program is designed to prepare individuals to understand care management from many perspectives - individual, family, community, and society.
2014 Dare to Care Award recipient: Dianne Fuller, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, who established the Salt Lake Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SL SANE), a non-profit organization of nurses providing care and...
