Sage News Header
    Issue 6       Winter 2011   

UMGNE Alliance Updates

FOURTH ANNUAL UPPER MIDWEST GERIATRIC NURSING EDUCATION ALLIANCE MEETING

June 8 - 9, 2011
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Details to be announced soon.


MOUNT MARTY COLLEGE ANNOUNCES THE ADDITION OF NEW MASTERS IN NURSING PROGRAM

Mount Marty College (Yankton, SD), a leader in BSN nursing education for 50 years and an Upper Midwest Geriatric Nursing Education Alliance school announces the addition of a Masters Degree in Nursing beginning in January 2011. The Masters Degree in Nursing will offer the following specialties: Advanced Public Health Nurse Leader; Pediatric Nurse Practitioner; and Adult Geriatric Nurse Practitioner. In addition, the program features a unique curriculum and hybrid online format that will allow students face-to-face contact with each other and healthcare leaders during 3-day immersion sessions at the beginning of each semester and at mid-semester across the two years of study. For more information, please visit Mount Marty's graduate program online at http://www.mtmc.edu/nursing/graduate.aspx




Center Updates


UNIVERSITY OF MN SCHOOL OF NURSING EXTENDS APPLICATION DEADLINES


Scholar PhotoThe priority deadline for the DNP program was November 1, 2010, and the priority deadline for the PhD program was December 15, 2010. However, applications are accepted through March 1, 2011 for both of these programs and priority is given to those applications that were received by the priority deadlines. For the first time, the PhD application will remain active until March 1, 2011. It is still possible to be accepted into both of these programs. It is recommended that you submit your application this year as soon as it is ready. Available openings will continue to be filled on a rolling basis until March 1, 2011, or until the program has reached full capacity. If you have further questions or would like to speak with a faculty member, please contact us at the Minnesota Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence: mnhcgne@umn.edu or 612-624-4644 and we can arrange for you to speak with a faculty member. You may also visit our website:

http://www.nursing.umn.edu/hartford/doctoralstudy/home.html


Back to top

In This Issue:

UMGNE Alliance & Center Updates

MNHCGNE Faculty Updates

HRSA Updates

MNHCGNE Scholar Updates

FLAG Fellow Updates

Geriatric Resources

Geriatric Education Articles

Write to Us

 


Sponsored by:


Hartford Logo


U of M Logo



DOCTORATE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Doctorate At Your Fingertips is a monthly newsletter distributed to individuals who have expressed an interest in obtaining their PhD and/or DNP degree at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, and is created and distributed by the Minnesota Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (MNHCGNE). This newsletter will answer questions generally asked of MNHCGNE faculty, feature an article by a current doctoral student or faculty member, contain a list of upcoming events, and highlight interesting facts about the School of Nursing. On occasion, we will write a feature article on an upcoming event that may be of interest to potential doctoral candidates. If you are interested in joining the newsletter distribution list, please contact Angela Harrison at aharriso@umn.edu. Previous issues of Doctorate At Your Fingertips can be found at: http://www.nursing.umn.edu/Hartford/doctoralstudy/home.html.



GERONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL CLUB FOR 2011

Join us for the Gerontological Nursing Journal Club, a lively discussion of journal articles on cutting-edge gerontological nursing research accompanied by light refreshments. Articles are distributed by e-mail each month and posted each month on the Center's bulletin board on the 6th floor, Weaver-Densford Hall. Individuals who reside outside the Twin Cities area can join us by toll free conference call. For further information, contact Shelli Quackenboss or Angela Harrison at mnhcgne@umn.edu.

Upcoming dates:
  • Thursday, January 27, 2011, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., 2-110 Weaver Densford Hall

    Article:
    Melissa M. Garrido, PhD, Robert L. Kane, MD, Merrie Kaas, DNSc, RN and
    Rosalie A. Kane, PhD
    Use of Mental Health Care by Community-Dwelling Older Adults
    Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Volume 59, Issue 1, Pages 50 - 56, January 2011

  • Thursday, March 3, 2011, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., 4-180 Weaver Densford Hall
  • Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., 4-180 Weaver Densford Hall



PFIZER VISITING PROFESSORSHIP IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE EVENTS


Dr. Kathleen Buckwalter, PhD, RN, FAAN
April 13 - 15, 2011
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Campus


Presentations
April 14 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Gerontological Nursing Journal Club: "Ask an Editor" with Nursing Faculty and Students
April 15 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Center for Gerontological Nursing Grand Rounds: Progressive Lowered Stress Threshold Model for Care of Alzheimer's Patients: Research into Practice

Details to be forthcoming.

Back to top

If you know of someone or a group of people who would like to receive this newsletter, please send an email to Shelli Quackenboss at quack003@umn.edu and she will subscribe them.

If you have received this message in error or would like not to receive this newsletter - Unsubscribe from this list.

Our mailing address is:

Dinnaken Office Building
Suite 100
925 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Our telephone:

612.624.4464 or 612.626.8872

Our fax:

612.626.8886

Copyright (C) 2011 * Minnesota Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence * All rights reserved.