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SSON welcomes first Fulbright Scholar to PhD program


The Sinclair School of Nursing (SSON) is pleased to welcome its first Fulbright Scholar to the school. Justina Yevu Johnson comes to the University of Missouri from Tema, Greater Accra, Ghana, where she was a nursing instructor at Central University College. Justina knew she wanted to pursue a PhD, so when the opportunity presented itself…

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Jonas Center Renews Jonas Global Fellowship


The Jonas Center announced last week they have approved the Sinclair School of Nursing's Jonas Global Fellowship for two more years. The Jonas Global Fellowship provides global health research experiences for graduate nursing students, such as DNP student Beth Mettes, RN, BSN. Beth traveled to the Dominican Republic as part of the MU team to…

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2017-2020 NINR Funded T32 Health Behavior Science Pre-Doctoral Fellows Selected


The MU Sinclair School of Nursing is pleased to announce Laura Remy, MPH, RN, of Kansas City, Mo., and Maureen Varty, BSN, RN, of Washington, D.C., have been selected as National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) funded T32 Health Behavior Science Pre-Doctoral Fellowship recipients for 2017-2020. As a PhD student, Laura is studying the development…

SSON Helps Launch New Online Graduate Certificate in Participatory Health Research


The University of Missouri is working to increase the number of researchers who use a patient-centered and community-engaged approach to their work by launching a new online graduate certificate in participatory health research.  "When researchers, community members, social welfare experts and health care administrators work as partners to conduct research projects, there is an increase…

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Students and Staff Honored at Tap Day


Six members of the Sinclair School of Nursing family were inducted into the University of Missouri secret honorary societies. At the 90th annual Tap Day ceremony in Jesse Auditorium Friday, April 14, 2017, students and staff were inducted into honor societies including Mortar Board, Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) and Rollins Society. Three undergraduate students were…

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SSON Grads, Students and Faculty Honored at MNRS Annual Conference


The University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing had a large presence at the 41st Annual Midwest Nursing Research Society Research Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The conference, held April 6-9, was themed, “Harnessing Big Data and Nursing Science to Improve Health,” and Sinclair School of Nursing graduates, students and faculty collectively received eight awards, one research…

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BSN Students Study in Costa Rica


Over the January intersession, 20 undergraduate nursing students from all three BSN options -- traditional, accelerated and the RN-BSN programs -- participated a study abroad trip to Monte Verde, Costa Rica. These students were completing their community health clinical hours, required for all BSN students. The group visited a health clinic, a nursing home, a…

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Student Practices ‘Quick’ Medicine in Africa


Professors at the Sinclair School of Nursing do not often recommend taking a week off of classes and clinicals. But when senior Stephanie Oetting learned she had the chance to experience medicine in Africa, everyone knew she had to jump at the opportunity. Oetting spent a week in October 2016 working alongside missionaries in medical…

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Helping the Voiceless


Unfortunately, intimate partner violence (IPV) is a sad reality for many throughout the state of Missouri and the United States. And many times, nurses are at the front lines of intervention. Throughout the Sinclair School of Nursing, faculty members are preparing student nurses to be attune to the signs of domestic violence and working to…

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Mother-daughter pair serve in Haiti


It is not rare for mothers and daughters to take trips across the country–or even across the world–together. But to travel together to serve as medical missionaries to a third-world country might be a little more rare. That is just what Elizabeth Soto and her mom Tricia Jester did this summer. Instead of your traditional…