College of Nursing

UNMC for the record

News and notes from the UNMC community.

Dec 7, 2018

Micah Beachy, D.O.

Regional West Foundation awards nursing scholarships

UNMC College of Nursing students net $66,000 in awards.

Dec 7, 2018

Kelly Betts, Ed.D.

Wendy Wells receives national rural health service award

Scottsbluff UNMC College of Nursing instructor recognized for making positive impact on rural lives.

Dec 4, 2018

Wendy Wells

Sonja Tutsch named SHPEP program manager

With 90 students in its program, UNMC has the largest enrollment among the 12 Summer Health Professions Education Program sites nationally.

Dec 3, 2018

Sonja Tutsch

Nursing faculty member Wendy Wells, receives national rural health service award

Chadron native recognized for making positive impact on rural lives

Nov 30, 2018

Wendy Wells

Retirement reception for Jan Twiss Monday

College of Nursing stalwart was at UNMC for longer than four decades.

Nov 29, 2018

Jan Twiss

UNMC nursing student prepares for Army career

Future officer Molly Murphy also is airborne-qualified.

Nov 12, 2018

Molly Murphy smiles as her dad, Dan Murphy, pins on her jump wings after finishing airborne training through an ROTC program. Murphy was one of the few Husker ROTC cadets in recent years to earn an invitation to attend the parachute training.

Simulation exercise offers insight into nursing’s roles

Senior nursing students recently had the chance to show radiography and physical therapy students aspects of patient care from a nursing perspective.

Nov 8, 2018

Nursing students prepare for an interprofessional simulation exercise. From left, front row, clockwise: Bayley Gardner, Brandie Janssen, Kade Kalkowski, Samuel Backer ("patient"), Aly Leger, Allison Boehm, Summer Orender, Paige Rosenthal, and daughter, Piper Rosenthal, "patient."

Postpartum depression is topic of Nov. 13 Omaha Science Cafe

Reproductive mood disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder also will be explored.

Nov 7, 2018

Sharon Hammer, M.D.

New members join Interprofessional Academy of Educators

New members were inducted earlier this fall.

Nov 6, 2018

The 2018 inductees into the Interprofessional Academy of Educators include: Back row, from left, Sandra Sasse, Judith Neville, Sara Bills, Cathleen Peterson-Layne, Keely Cassidy, Julie Gregg and Travis McCumber. Front row, from left, Karen Gould, Yun Saksena, Ana Yuil-Valdes, Annie Wildermuth, Cheryl Bagley Thompson and Lynnette Leeseberg Stamler.