School of Nursing
Projects
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Terrific Tuesdays
The UW-Madison School of Nursing, in partnership with Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation, offers an ongoing continuing education program series cal...
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Project HealthDesign
Project HealthDesign is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that's housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School...
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Testing Maps and Graphics to Promote Safe Drinking Water from Private Wells
The broad goal of my research is to improve how environmental risk is communicated to the public in order to foster accurate risk beliefs and appropri...
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The Community Advisors on Research Design and Strategies (CARDS)®
The Community Advisors on Research Design and Strategies (CARDS)® is a program of the Wisconsin Network for Research Support (WINRS), an innovative c...
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CARDS Community Advisors for Research Design and Strategies
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, the Lussier Community Education Center and the Goodman Community Center have been awarded a thr...
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Aging with Intellectual Disability: Support for Wisconsin's Group Home Workers
Based on research in Australia with caregivers of older adults with intellectual disability and in collaboration with the Wisconsin Dept. of Health Se...
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Board of Trustees of Sauk County Health Care Center
As Chair of the Board of Trustees of Sauk County Health Care Center, Professor Mary Ellen Murray brings both financial expertise and quality of care e...
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Post Graduate Psychiatric Nursing Capstone Certificate Program
Sobering statistics about the rise in military suicides as soldiers transition back to families and communities drive home the need for a stronger com...
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Wisconsin Public Health Research Network (WPHRN)
The Wisconsin Public Health Research Network (WPHRN) links public health practitioners and researchers to answer questions and disseminate discoveries...
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Engaging students in Wisconsin dementia friendly community efforts
Since 2014, the Center for Aging Research and Education (CARE) has supported students volunteering with and learning from Wisconsin community efforts...
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Educational opportunities for nursing assistants and personal care workers
The Center for Aging Research and Education (CARE) organizes one-day conferences for health care paraprofessionals – certified nurse assistants (CNAs)...
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Rural Nursing Shortage
A three-week Rural Community Health Immersion Clinical program is helping nursing students gain a new perspective on health care that can only be foun...
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Reducing Dementia Stigma in Watertown
By the year 2035, it is projected that 200,000 people in Wisconsin will be living with dementia. With two-thirds of these people living within communi...
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Concussion in Adolescents
Concussion can affect adolescents across various aspects of life. Traci Snedden, an Assistant Professor with the UW-Madison School of Nursing, focuses...
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Dementia Friendly Toolkit
In response to family caregivers’ stories of challenging medical appointments, community groups’ requests for dementia friendly training materials, an...
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eSchoolCare
For many students, the school nurse may be the only health care professional seen consistently. School nurses face challenges: too little time, few re...
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Healthy Aging in Rural Towns
Healthy Aging in Rural Towns (HeART) is a collaborative project to help rural communities strengthen their support networks for their older adults and...
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Engaging Families as Care Partners in Community Nursing Homes
The project’s overall goal is to improve healthcare through family engagement to community nursing homes (NHs), a setting in which family engagement c...
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The CARE U Train-the-Trainer Program: Expanding Educational Opportunities for Direct Care Staff
In recognition of the vital role of direct care workers in older adults' quality of life, the School of Nursing’s Center for Aging Research and Educat...
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Partnering with the Hmong Community to Build Better Medical Translation Tools and Preserve Hmong Narratives to Reduce Health Disparities
The Hmong experience many health disparities. An important step toward addressing these health disparities is overcoming poor communication, language...