en-us http://health.umn.edu/research/adolescent-health/ "Adolescence sets the trajectory for life," Bearinger recently told The Lancet. "Globally, we need to be doing more to ensure that young people are equipped to be on healthy pathways throughout adulthood." 16 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://ow.ly/aVG9k 2012-14 recipient of the Center for Spirituality and Healing's Sime Fellowship 15 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1023584 This workshop will focus on empowering consumers as partners in managing their health through the use of health information technologies (HIT). During this Pre-Summit workshop, participants will learn about factors changing the health care system to patient-centered care and how consumer use of HIT can help. Local success stories and lessons learned will be shared. Building on this information, you will identify actions to empower your consumers through engagement in use of HIT. 14 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.nursing.umn.edu/AboutUs/News/News2012/IntroducingtheHealthyCommunitiesInnovationCenter/index.htm New high tech learning facility at School of Nursing will support team-based, interprofessional learning, transforming nursing education for a changing health care environment 9 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/562710_348648021855620_116651708388587_860398_924920362_n.jpg (Photo of Graduating Class) 30 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZx8MCdfY8Q Associate Professor Linda Lindeke explores this and more in National Center for Medical Home Implementation video. 25 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.nursing.umn.edu/innovation To showcase major systems change projects that move from academic exercises to sustainable contributions, the University of Minnesota School of Nursing introduces the DNP Innovation Institute. The Institute will feature the significant contributions of DNP-educated nurses on improving health care and clinical practice and illustrate how to make an idea sustainable by highlighting innovative evidence-based projects that solve real-world problems and improve patient care. Sign up Today! Deadline for Abstracts is May 4. 19 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.chip.umn.edu/clarion/casecomp/home.html 16 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ahcweb/health-talk/2012/04/focus-on-community-health-for-school-of-nursing-1.html Focus on Community Health for School of Nursing. The University of Minnesota's School of Nursing is hosting its annual Nursing Research Day on April 27, 2012. This year's theme is Transforming Health through Community Engaged Research and Practice, which closely aligns with the school's nationally-recognized Community Health program. 11 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2012/04/03/ending-student-expulsions-minneapolis-public-schools-legal-rights-center-partner-res 4 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.mspmag.com/outstandingnurses If you have had a professional encounter with a nurse you consider to be outstanding, submit a nomination. This can be done by anyone - a consumer, a parent, a clinic, a peer, a doctor, a patient, a staff member. The nurse must be an RN but they could be employed as an educator, a school nurse, a clinic nurse, a hospital nurse, etc. The nominations will be reviewed by a blue-ribbon panel that includes the Executive Director of the American Nurses Credentialing Center, an Associate Professor from the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota, and a nurse representative from the Mayo Clinic. Finalists in each category will be honored at an event in July and featured in the August issue of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine. This is a wonderful opportunity to salute individuals in a profession that often goes unrecognized for its contributions. 26 Mar 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.nursing.umn.edu/AboutUs/News/BentsonFoundation/index.htm The new gift provides $3.65 million to construct a new skills-learning environment, replacing the 25-year-old facility currently used by bachelor's, master's and doctoral students. Renovating this space is a major step toward achieving the school's goals for reshaping nursing education to meet the dramatic changes in the interdisciplinary health care environment. 7 Mar 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.csh.umn.edu/Education_Programs/DalaiLamaFellows/currentfellow/index.htm The Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota has selected Aimee Prasek as the winner of a ten thousand dollar fellowship through Dalai Lama Fellows. A graduate student in Tibetan medicine and yoga at the University of Minnesota Prasek was chosen through a rigorous selection process after an open call for applications. 5 Mar 2012 15:00:00 GMT https://www.publicinsightnetwork.org/form/minnesota-public-radio/436d6afb3736/whats-it-like-to-be-a-nurse Minnesota Public Radio is offering nurses a chance to help inform healthcare reporting. Click on the link to answer some simple questions about yourself and the work that you do. Your answers are confidential. A reporter may contact you for more information but you will not be quoted without your explicit permission. This is a great opportunity for you to share your first-hand experience and to help tell the Nursing story! 10 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT http://www.springer.com/medicine/internal/book/978-1-61779-578-7 Associate Professor Linda Chlan, PhD, RN, co-authored Integrative Therapies in Lung Health and Sleep. The book provides an overview of integrative therapies to assist clinicians caring for patients with acute or chronic lung diseases and sleep disorders - emphasizing the scientific bases for these therapies; and their implementation into clinical practice. 9 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT http://govhealthit.com/news/cms-picks-innovation-advisors-steer-reform DNP graduate Beverly Christie has been selected from a pool of over 900 applicants for the 73-person innovation advisors group at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Congratulations Beverly! 9 Jan 2012 http://www.health.umn.edu/education/nursing/student-q-and-a/ Fall 2011 Nursing graduates Steven Mund and Casey Wangen discuss their experiences at the School, advice for other students and bold ambitions for the future. Now featured on the front page of the Academic Health Center Web site. 5 Jan 2012 http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/CenterNews/MinnesotaCenterforHealthTrajectoryResearch/index.htm A Call for New Strategies to Develop Person-Centered Science 28 Nov 2011 14:00:00 GMT http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/CenterNews/KatharineJ.DensfordInternationalCenterforNursingLeadership/index.htm Accountable Care Organizations and Health Care Homes:Can Minnesota Make These Work? 28 Nov 2011 14:00:00 GMT http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/AdvancementNews/PlannedGivingMatters/index.htm School of Nursing alumna Susan Forstrom helps shape the future of health care 28 Nov 2011 14:00:00 GMT http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/AlumniNews/HyeounAePark/index.htm Informatics Revolutionizes Korean Nursing Education and Health Care 28 Nov 2011 14:00:00 GMT http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/StrengtheningtheBond/index.htm Arts based program helps improve communication between Latino adolescents and their families 28 Nov 2011 14:00:00 GMT http://www.mn2020.org/issues-that-matter/health-care/impeding-nurse-shortage With the combination of a slowing economy and an aging population, the health care system will feel deep impacts of a nursing shortage. Fewer students are seeking advanced practice nursing degrees, and retiring instructors are not being replaced fast enough. 23 Nov 2011 14:00:00 GMT http://www.nursing.umn.edu/AboutUs/News/News2011/UniversityofMinnesotaSchoolofNursingReceivesInauguralBSNAwardforInnovativeClinicalRotationinaNursingHome/index.htm The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) has announced their BSN Awards for Innovative Clinical Rotation in a Nursing Home. The award honoring the University of Minnesota School of Nursing was presented to Dean Connie Delaney and Vice Dean Sandra Edwardson at the AACNs fall meeting on October 21, 2011. 7 Nov 2011 14:00:00 GMT http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/Centers/index.htm A Call to Nurses Working with Young People http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/Centers/CenterforGerontologicalNursing/index.htm Partnering to Improve Health for Older Adults http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/Centers/KatharineJ.DensfordInternationalCenterforNursingLeadership/index.htm Health Care Design and Innovation Post-Baccalaureate Certificate - Creating Optimal Healing Environments http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/PastIssues/FallWinter2010/SpecialDelivery/index.htm School of Nursing hopes to develop a freestanding birth center http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/PastIssues/FallWinter2010/TakingaLookattheBigPicture/index.htm Pediatric nurse practitioners coordinate effective multispecialty care for children with genetic syndromes http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/PastIssues/FallWinter2010/PartneringforHealth/index.htm New affiliation with Northwestern Health Sciences University creates two new nurse-managed clinics http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/PastIssues/FallWinter2010/TeachingtheTeachers/index.htm FLAG® enhances the teaching of geriatric nursing in the Upper Midwest http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/PastIssues/FallWinter2010/BuildingtheHealthInformaticsWorkforce/index.htm U of M awarded $5.1 million to prepare health professionals in essential field http://www.nursing.umn.edu/magazine/PastIssues/FallWinter2010/SpotlightonAdvancedPracticeNurses/index.htm As a result of health care reform, some 32 million formerly uninsured patients will enter the health care system by 2014. Due to the looming shortage of primary-care physicians - a predicted shortfall of 40,000 by 2020 - a new paradigm of care is emerging — one that promotes wellness management rather than disease management. Improving rural families access to healthcare through technology http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/display/95996 Translating nursing research into improved patient quality of life http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/display/95994 Using predictive modeling to simulate complez healthcare processes Description Developed for students seeking an advanced clinical practice degree as an alternative to a research focused PhD program. This program concentrates on evidence-based practice and helps students translate health related research into practice in a variety of setting from the clinical environment to development of health delivery systems. Reducing Youth Violence - Lead Peace program connects young teens to school and community New affiliation with Northwestern Health Sciences University creates two new nurse-managed clinics Donna Bliss Recieves NIH Grant to Study Disparities in Nursing Home Care http://www.nursing.umn.edu/prod/groups/nurs/@pub/@nurs/documents/asset/nurs_asset_338486.pdf Calming the Anxiety of ICU Patients on Ventilators http://www.nursing.umn.edu/prod/groups/nurs/@pub/@nurs/documents/asset/nurs_asset_338487.pdf The goal of this program is to help families eat healthy foods and eat meals together. http://www.nursing.umn.edu/prod/groups/nurs/@pub/@nurs/documents/asset/nurs_asset_338488.pdf Nearly 40 percent of American adults use some form of alternative or integrative healing practice. Thats why the School of Nursing, in collaboration with the Center for Spirituality and Healing, is focused on new approaches to patient care. The result: the nation's first specialty in Integrative Health and Healing in the Doctorate of Nursing Program. http://www.nursing.umn.edu/prod/groups/nurs/@pub/@nurs/documents/asset/nurs_asset_338634.pdf Peripheral artery disease -PAD- is a common disease caused by a build up of fatty deposits in the blood vessels of the legs.