School of Nursing

Bridget Gehrz

Learning to heal

Tillman Scholar Bridget Gehrz wants to help military families live healthy, abundant lives.
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Assistant Professor Melissa Horning

APHA honors Horning with Junior Investigator Award
The American Public Health Association (APHA) awarded its 2019 Junior Investigator Award to Assistant Professor Melissa Horning, PhD, RN, PHN. The Junior Investigator Award is selected through blind review by the association’s research committee and honors an early-career (NIH definition) Public Health Nursing Section member's work since completing a doctoral education.
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Fall 2019 Commencement

School of Nursing celebrates commencement
The University of Minnesota School of Nursing celebrated the graduation of 62 Master of Nursing (MN) and 19 Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students at a commencement ceremony Friday, Dec. 13 at Northrop.

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Department of Health commissioner to deliver fall commencement address

Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm will deliver the commencement address at the School of Nursing’s fall commencement ceremony on Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. in Northrop auditorium.

Porta inducted into the Academies for Excellence in Clinical Practice

Professor Carolyn Porta, PhD, MPH, RN, SANE-A, FAAN, was inducted into the Academies for Excellence in Clinical Practice, which is the premier recognition given to faculty members at the University of Minnesota for clinical care. Those inducted have demonstrated the highest level of ethics and professionalism during their career.

Informatics researchers look at community strengths to address opioid epidemic

Community members from the Hue-MAN Partnership and researchers from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing are collaborating on research to help racial and ethnic minority communities better understand how to leverage community strengths to address the opioid epidemic. The research aims to address the health disparities caused by social stigma and structural bias and shift the conversation from stigma to strengths.

DNP Student Profile: Kirk Butler

Kirk Butler aspires to alleviate chronic pain among his fellow military veterans.

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Transforming nursing education through state-of-the-art facilities

Our 11,000 square foot learning simulation environment for nursing education, research and professional development is designed to reflect the future of health care delivery and nursing science.

Conference room in Bentson facility Our Bentson Healthy Communities Innovation Center was designed for optimal team education and training experiences involving a range of health care professionals, with high-tech facilities and technology and simulated environments that span the continuum of care.