MSU College of Nursing students performed COVID-19 screenings for elementary and middle school children in Detroit.

The Luke Clinic provides easily accessible and affordable resources to pregnant women, new mothers, and infants in Detroit. Nursing students have been going through eight stations, covering many elements of care, including having assisted with ultras...

This is a student recruitment effort in Detroit Public Schools, specifically at Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine. The partnership gives high-achieving high school students the opportunity to earn conditional admission into the coll...

Stress can have negative detrimental physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual consequences for nursing staff. Organizations have a responsibility to provide low-risk, evidence-based, integrative techniques to help reduce stress and compassio...

The purpose of this pilot project is to implement health-literacy friendly interventions during patient education of the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patient population that will increase the patient’s ability to self-manage their chr...

Three Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) nurse practitioner students complete their project at Henry Ford New Center One OB/GYN. They were asked to evaluate a quality improvement initiative to increase screening for depression during the pregnancy peri...

The College of Nursing and Henry Ford Health System are collaboratively moving the following efforts forward: Expanding evidence-based best healthcare practices; Forging ahead to build nursing science that will identify the most effective nursing int...

The college has a partnership with Detroit Medical Center, where it has annually welcomed a cohort of Accelerated BSN students since 2015. An expansion of the MSU nursing program cohort will help to ease the critical shortage of nurses. MSU nursing s...

Advisory board meetings to address cardiovascular health, cardiovascular health disparities in the community.

Presented on Mental Health and Self-Care for nurses to Nurses and Staff at MCLaren Greater Lansing, after one of the directors at MGL attended my CONversations series presentation they asked me to present to their staff. The objectives of the present...

Stress can have negative detrimental physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual consequences for nursing staff. Organizations have a responsibility to provide low-risk, evidence based, integrative techniques to help reduce stress and compassio...

Patients in the intensive care unit, need more timely access to palliative and hospice care. The aim of this project was to increase the appropriate and early timeliness of palliative and hospice care consultations in the intensive care unit. Educati...

Implement a multicomponent approach to evidence-based delirium interventions for adult patients in non-critical care units at risk for and experiencing delirium. -Encourage accountability -Encourage appropriate use of interventions -Encourage colla...

Delirium is one of the top contributors to patient falls in the hospital. Project was to implement a delirium education, use of an appropriate delirium screening tool, and targeted interventions to help in earlier delirium recognition and decrease in...

The number of lumbar spinal fusion patients increases each year nationwide. The amount of opioid pain medication used can affect the outcomes, patient satisfaction, and quality of recovery. In this project, emphasis was placed on implementing and usi...

Background and Significance: Low levels of health literacy can have a detrimental effect on a patient’s ability to navigate the complex healthcare system. Healthcare systems and providers must work to make healthcare more accessible to all the popula...

Background and Review of Literature: A Healthy Work Environment (HWE) has broad implications impacting wellness and retention of team members, recruitment, quality and safety of care delivered, and the overall organizational culture. A review of the ...

Community Health Nursing Student taught a group of people (elderly) how to reduce risk for falls in their home environment. I provided guidance for the student who provided face to face meeting with individuals using a CDC home risk survey. The goals...

Engaged with a county health department in Michigan and a senior adult day facility to facilitate nursing student clinicals (2 groups). As part of these clinicals, students completed a public health project that addresses identified health needs in t...

Serve as board secretary for the Davies Project, which provides transportation to children and families for medical care. The board works to raise money, increase awareness, and sustain the operation.

Serve on the board of the Children's Palliative Care Coalition, a group of palliative care providers, social workers, nurses, and families working to promote and raise awareness of the need for palliative care services, advocate for legislation to ge...

Students restored the medical home using the principals of Public health care Removal of out dated medicine,. Using an Amazon Wish List restock the house with pampers, formula, personal care items for the community. Food distribution/giveaway selecti...