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Faculty ad Honorem Joanne Disch was named the recipient of the Geraldine “Polly” Bednash Lectureship Award by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for her accomplishments related to AACN’s Quality and Safety for Nursing Education initiative.

The very real issue of substance-use disorder among nurses isn’t something that gets talked about all that much in nursing schools. A new curriculum created by the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and made available to nursing schools around the state is trying to get that timely conversation started.

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.