Minnesota Nursing Magazine Spring/Summer 2012 - School of ...

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School of Nursing makes history, celebrates milestones, and
continues its legacy of excellence.
See additional photos from these and
other School of Nursing events at
www.nursing.umn.edu/photos.
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Nursing Research Day (photos 1-3)
1. Keynote speaker Dr. Antonia M. Villarruel presents “Engaging Communities in
Research: From Efficacy to Scale Up,” to a crowd of more than 400 attendees.
2. Megan Holle, BSN ’12, explains her poster entitled “Mother’s perspectives
on the effect a nursing mother’s room has on breastfeeding duration and
infant intake.”
3. Assistant Professor Kristine Talley (left) and Ann Garwick, senior associate
dean for research (center) present Kjerstie Wiltzen, BSN ‘12, with the Nursing
Research Day Undergraduate Student Poster Award for her poster entitled
“Incidence and predictors of dual incontinence in older people with either
urinary of fecal incontinence admitted to a nursing home.”
Spring Nursing Commencement (photos 4-6)
4. BSN graduates wait anxiously to have their degree conferred by Dean Connie
Delaney and Robert McMaster, vice provost and dean of Undergraduate
Education.
5. A traditional Native American blanket ceremony marked the graduation of
master’s student Nicole Lenoir (center). She was presented with a blanket by
Drs. Catherine Juve (left) and Melissa Avery (right).
6. Pediatric Nurse Practitioner DNP graduate Sonja Dahl being hooded by
Drs. Mary Chesney (left) and her advisor Christine Poe (right).
HCIC Wall Breaking Ceremony (photos 7-9)
On May 9, 2012 the School of Nursing began construction on the Healthy
Communities Innovation Center. The long-awaited facility will renovate the 25
year-old existing nursing skills laboratory, expanding it to four times the size.
Learn more at www.nursing.umn.edu/hcic.
7. Dean Connie Delaney takes the first swing to knock down the walls of the old
nursing skills lab.
8. Pictured l-r: Barbara Brandt, Aaron Friedman, the Honorable John Frobenius,
and Dean Connie Delaney.
9. School of Nursing Distinguished Alumna Florence Ruhland ’59 takes a swing at
the bullseye.
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