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student research

Resident Voices and Choices in Person-Centered Care

Posted on January 6, 2025

Receiving care shouldn’t come at the cost of an individual’s dignity, sense of self, or autonomy—especially when the care setting is the person’s home, as in long-term care. That’s why nursing home residents, families, and …

Posted in Issue 27Tagged community engagement, laura block, long term care, nursing home, person centered, person-centered care, research, student research

Students Learning from and with Older Adults

Posted on February 12, 2016

For Yvette Egan, MS, RN, creating a learning experience that pairs nursing students with healthy, community-dwelling older adults was in the cards. Literally. Egan, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of …

Posted in Issue 10Tagged aging in place, community engagement, health education, student research, Yvette Egan

Making Communities and Future Professionals More Dementia Friendly

Posted on February 12, 2016

“I had never considered working with older adults because I thought it would be sad and depressing, but now I have completely changed my mind.” That was the impact on one University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduate …

Posted in Issue 10Tagged community engagement, dementia friendly communities, health education, interdisciplinary education, student research, Wisconsin health care

Nursing Where Everyday Life Happens: Home Health

Posted on November 11, 2015

Considering his passion for home health care, it’s surprising that it wasn’t Troy Lawrence’s initial career plan. “Looking back at my undergrad experiences, I was in that group of people who were determined to be …

Posted in Issue 09Tagged aging in place, home health, quality of care, student research, Troy Lawrence

What A Pain! A Study of the Treatment of Pain in Older Adults with Dementia

Posted on July 22, 2013

Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Predoctoral Scholar, researches a topic that hits close to home: pain. That is, Gilmore-Bykovskyi …

Posted in Issue 01Tagged Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, evidence-based practice, pain, pain management, student research

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