Iowa’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) is a part of the national network of Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) programs funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration. Iowa’s chapter of this national program, (ILEND), provides long-term, graduate level interdisciplinary training.
Iowa Board of Nursing Associate Director of Practice and Education Jimmy A. Reyes, an alumnus of the University of Iowa’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program, was recently inducted as a fellow of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s (NCSBN) Institute of Regulatory Excellence (IRE).
Dr. Cormac T. O’Sullivan, PhD, MSN, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) from Coralville, Iowa, was recently selected as Program Director of the Year Award by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA).
University of Iowa Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student Brittany Hamm, BSN, RN, has been selected as an American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) Board of Directors Student Scholar.
Millions of Americans are affected by mental health conditions every year. Iowa’s citizens are certainly not immune; however, University of Iowa College of Nursing Professor Virginia (Ginny) Conley is doing her part to improve the health care provision and lives of those with severe mental illness (SMI) such as a psychotic disorder, bipolar disorder, or major depressive disorder.
Assistant Clinical Professor Larry Newman, DNP, RN, AGPCNP-BC, director of the college’s Adult/Geriatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program was recently bestowed with the Outstanding Faculty Practice Award by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF).
University of Iowa College of Nursing Adjunct Clinical Professor Carol Watson, PhD, RN CENP, FAAN, has been named one of the American Organization of Nurse Executives’ (AONE) inaugural fellows. This fellow designation recognizes a nurse leader's sustained contributions to the specialty of nursing leadership, commitment to service, and influence in shaping health care.
A team comprised of UI College of Nursing faculty members Jacinda Bunch, PhD, RN, Cormac O’Sullivan, PhD, CRNA, ARNP, and April Prunty, MSN, RN, recently won funding to assess current and future educational opportunities for emergency medical services (EMS), rural hospitals, and critical access hospitals in the state of Iowa.
On one of the busiest patient floors at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Nurse Manager Dan Lose, a 2016 doctor of nursing practice (DNP) graduate of the UI College of Nursing, oversees a staff of 140, an annual budget of $10 million, and a daily churn of patients that puts his medical and management skills to the test.
University of Iowa College of Nursing Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student McKenzie McAdaragh has been awarded a Cherokee Medical Uniforms Nursing Conference Scholarship.
Part of Strategic Partners, Inc., Cherokee Medical Uniforms created scholarship program to help address the challenges nurses face when it comes to covering the costs of furthering their education.
