November 2019

Dean Shari Dworkin discusses the value and impact of mentorship at the School of Nursing and Health Studies (SNHS) in the Fall Newsletter. SNHS embraces mentoring intensively as both an art and a science. Our faculty and staff also deeply engage the mentorship of students and have experienced numerous successes in this arena.

The UWB MN program has been ranked #4 among public schools that offer a Master's degree and the MN program was ranked #12 overall! 

SNHS faculty, Drs. Jody Early and Victoria Breckwich Vasquez, co-led a grassroots effort in Washington state to address the issue of sexual harassment in agriculture.

A BSN'14 graduate, Miriam Witt, is now working towards her Master of Nursing at UWB! Witt's goals and passions were heavily influenced by her volunteer trip to Kenya and experiences teaching clinical nursing as an adjunct instructor at Skagit Valley College. 

Dr. Niitsu participated in the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 33rd annual conference. The conference, focusing on Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses: The Whole Health Connection, included 300 sessions and poster presentations on topics related to psychiatric-mental health nursing.