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Shanell Brown, who earned her MN in 2023, has founded Shades of Divinity, a non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating health inequities. Read more about Shanell, her educational experiences, and her plans for the future.

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The CROW Connecting Bothell and Bellevue project was proposed by Ko Niitsu, Assistant Professor at 56勛圖厙 Bothell School of Nursing & Health Studies, and Christina Lai, an undergraduate student majoring in Health Studies and minoring in Biology at 56勛圖厙 Bothell. Lai has been working with Niitsu as an Research Assistant / Student Civic Fellow supported by the Washington Campus Compact.

Niitsu and his colleagues have previously developed an intervention to help 56勛圖厙 Bothell students stay resilient during the pandemic through a pilot research project titled, Resilience through Virtual Mindfulness. ���Christina was one of the participants of the mindfulness project��� Niitsu said. ���After the project was over, she approached to me and told me that not only college students but high school students are also struggling with mental health and wellbeing. This is how the idea of the CROW Connecting Bothell and Bellevue project was born���.

Niitsu and Lai are designing a project that college students at 56勛圖厙 Bothell function as mentors for high school students in Bellevue. ���I am a graduate of a high school in Bellevue, and I am now about to graduate from 56勛圖厙 Bothell���, Lai said. ���The last few years have been exceptionally challenging and taken a toll on us all. I would like to help youth build a strong foundation to thrive and prepare them for success���.

They are currently developing the IRB application, program content, and network. They are hoping to start recruiting participants in Autumn 2022 and implementing the project in Winter 2023 and/or later.

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Nurses are at the front lines of community health and patient health care. They make policy, face life-threatening emergencies, build healthy communities and schools, conduct health-improving research, and are often the human face of healthcare organizations. Nursing is the largest healthcare workforce in the nation, it is regularly ranked as the most trusted profession, and employment in nursing is expected to grow much more rapidly than the average for all occupations.

National Nurses Week honors the expertise, care and contributions of nurses across the broad scope of our practice, and calls upon us all ��� nurses and non-nurses alike — to reflect upon and express gratitude for working relentlessly to keep us healthy. National Nurses Week falls during the birthday week of Florence Nightingale, a complex woman who formalized the work of nursing during the Crimean War and created the role of the professional nurse. She was the descendent ��� as we all are ��� of the community health workers and caregivers who have focused on the health of all of us for millennia. National Nurses Week shines a spotlight on the work that nurses do every day. This is a week when nurses often receive the thanks that may be absent the rest of the year, and the recognition of the expertise and skill that nurses bring to shaping healthcare.

One of the essential roles of a nurse is the assessment and support of recovery ��� from birth, from an illness or injury, or, this year, from a pandemic. Nurses are emerging from the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic with a new understanding of the limitations and strengths of our healthcare system, and of ourselves. This is an opportunity for us to reflect on the many ways that nurses and nursing change lives, to honor the work that they do and the people they care for, and to reinvigorate the hard work of changing healthcare into something both more sustainable and more equitable for us all. Nurses are so lucky to do the work that they do, to be invited into people���s most intimate thoughts and lives, and they deserve the support of our community to do that work. This week is an opportunity for nurses to feel that support, to know it is there, and to call on it to create change in ways that keeps them able to do the critical work they do.

To recognize the critical contributions that nurses make to our local, regional, and global communities, please join us in thanking, honoring, and celebrating the positive impact of our nursing faculty, students, alumni and partners alongside of the American Nurses Association that names this year���s National Nurses Week ���You Make a Difference.��� What should you do? Support nurses and nurse organizations. Encourage news outlets to seek out nurses as experts in healthcare. Advocate for adequate worker protections and safety measures. Call on elected officials to make policy that supports the health of our communities. Thank the nurse who held you during labor, who tracks your child���s immunization needs, who expertly assessed you in an ER, who helped a family member exit this life feeling cared for, who developed the care pathways that guide chemotherapy, who support the health of our communities, who write laws, who shared a laugh with you during a difficult moment. Nurses make a difference, and you make a difference for Nurses.

Shari L. Dworkin, Ph.D. M.S. Professor and Dean, School of Nursing and Health Studies

Meghan Eagen-Torkko, Ph.D., CNM, ARNP, FACNM, Associate Professor and Director of Nursing Programs

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Describe your new position – how does it help SNHS deliver on its mission?

The Fieldwork Program Manager position builds and maintains relationships with health care and community health organizations, while also understanding the interests and needs of the students who will be participating in fieldwork. As a result of requiring fieldwork to graduate, developing, collaborating with and matching fieldwork opportunities among students and community partners is a crucial part of helping SNHS deliver on its mission ���to advance social justice, health, and nursing practice through innovative pedagogy, research and community engagement���.

What���s it like returning to your alma mater for work?

Returning to work at 56勛圖厙B has been a pleasure. Reconnecting with the beautiful campus, wonderful SNHS faculty/staff, and returning full circle to engage with students is quite fulfilling. In addition to working with the team and students, developing relationships with community partners as part of my work allows for collaboration, growth and boundless opportunity. All in all, once a Husky, always a Husky! Go Dawgs!

What are some things that excite you about the coming year?

The collaboration among students and partners, in addition to opportunity to build new fieldwork processes excites me about the coming year. I also look forward to connecting with the SNHS team and students across campus!

If I have an idea for a student project, how should I connect with Sukhaman? What should I expect?

56勛圖厙B MN Fieldwork (On the left side navigation of the MN landing page), folks can submit an Online Request Form to share a fieldwork opportunity for a MN student. Please also feel free to reach out to Sukhaman via email at skaurg@uw.edu. I am happy to connect in person or via Zoom as well.

What are some of the projects students are working on in the coming year?

An opportunity related to resiliency as it relates to COVID-19 and the Future of Nursing 2030 which also includes an aspect of pandemic preparedness. Explore where the WA workforce is with regards to pandemic preparedness and lessons learned to improve nurse resiliency moving forward.

Examining the influence of nursing mentorship on nurse leaders, centered around design and implementation of an ambulatory nurse leader mentorship cohort program.

Curriculum Development, reflect new lessons in a post COVID world, addition to social justice as a nurse. The course is Nursing Foundations, unique opportunity to hardwire crucial lessons.

Evaluation of leadership & nursing theory threaded through the curriculum. Evaluation of current use of grading rubrics, suggestions for improvements. Evaluation of curriculum in terms of content/process regarding cultural competence, cultural humility and DEI.

Quality Improvement project at the 56勛圖厙MC Translational Research Unit

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