Fewer than one percent of U.S. nurses works in correctional facilities. Yet, clinicians across care settings see the health impacts of incarceration, says Kristin Merss, PhD, RN, a postdoctoral trainee at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, 1.9 million people are behind bars in the United States. Nearly …
Dwayne Dobschuetz, APRN, Geriatric Nurse Practitioner at Northwestern Medicine and University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing alumnus, remembers the day his career changed. He had worked in Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s emergency department for nearly 20 years, and had recently joined three other nurses there in focusing on older patients’ needs. “The physician who headed the …
It could be the beginning of a joke: A nurse and an engineer walk into an emergency department. In reality, it’s a powerful partnership for healthcare innovations. “If you want to design something that’s actually going to work for different healthcare settings, you need to work with nurses,” says Nicole Werner, PhD, an assistant professor …