Nursing students, faculty attend geriatric nursing conference

Three Nursing faculty members, Pam Kirk, Helen Harris and Vicki Teske, and nine students—Courtney Conyers, Amy Lavalla, Heather Erickson, Tim Yancey, Melinda Thompson, Piper Delapointe, Deb Wolff, Lisa Murr Johnson and Alicia Saue—attended the Students Investing in Nursing’s Future-Geriatrics (SIN-G) conference held April 8 in Alexandria, Minn. Thirty-seven nursing students from eight schools in west central Minnesota participated in this […]

Student participates in Chamber’s Breakfast Buzz April 14

Jessica Julig-Weedman, a senior Nursing major, is a featured panelist in the FMWF Chamber’s Breakfast Buzz Thursday, April 14 at 7:15 a.m. at NDSCS Fargo. The topic is on creating effective intergenerational communication. “Communication issues are prevalent in today’s multi-generational work force. It’s no wonder with one generation needing to hold face-to-face meetings while another has invented an entirely new […]

Nursing students accepted into graduate program

Three nursing students from MSUM’s RN to BSN completion program have been accepted to graduate school. Alumuna Tracy Zimmerman, ‘10, and current students Ellen Whelihan and Corey Robinson have all been accepted into St. Scholastica’s highly competitive Family Nurse Practitioner program.  All three participated in the Nicaragua medical trip with nursing professor Jane Bergland.

“Why Women Run Marathons” lecture Nov. 19

The Women’s Studies Colloquium presents Dr. Gina Aalgaard Kelly, Nursing and Healthcare Leadership, delivering a lecture on “Why Women Run Marathons” at noon Friday, November 19 in MacLean 167. The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons involved with why women run marathons from an intergenerational perspective. The research literature is limited with long distance running, specifically a […]