MSUM students are doing amazing things. Our students embrace diversity, challenges, opportunities, unique experiences and continue to produce incredible results. Our students participate in student organizations, attend and present at regional and national conferences, compete at regional and national competitions, collaborate on faculty-mentored projects, gain hands-on experience through internships, help coordinate community service projects, and more. Many have won prestigious scholarships for academic excellence and many have won awards for their stellar work inside and outside of the classroom. See what the students from the School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership are doing.
Samantha Kundinger, Health Services Administration, Community Health Minor
"We look at health care disparities and why problems exist, and why there are issues in populations and how as administrators and community health educators we can address those and fix them.""Our faculty is very accessible in our department. I'm able to come up to our offices and if they're not there, I can reach them at any time. They're good about keeping in touch with students about every part of student life."
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 last Spring in Alexandria, Minn.Thirty-seven nursing students from eight schools in west central Minnesota participated in this one-of-a-kind event focusing on a career in geriatric nursing. Nursing students were selected to participate in the SIN-G project through a competitive application process and an expressed interest to learn more about, and potentially specialize in, nursing care of older adults. Read the full article here.
Jessica Julig-Weedman, as a senior Nursing major, was a featured panelist in the FMWF Chamber’s Breakfast Buzz last Spring at NDSCS Fargo. The topic was on creating effective intergenerational communication. The panel descriptor read as: “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 written language made up of abbreviations. Learn from our panel representing different generations how to effectively improve face-to-face, written and electronic communication in the workplace.”
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.
Samantha Kundinger, Health Services Administration Major
