Faculty News

Associate Professor Tracy Klein of the WSU College of Nursing-Vancouver has been named assistant director of the WSU Center for Cannabis Policy, Research and Outreach.

Stressors in the workplace are causing burnout, but potential interventions focus on nurses themselves, writes Assistant Professor Angela C. Brittain of the WSU College of Nursing-Vancouver.

Dr. Janessa Graves of the WSU College of Nursing has been elected to the board of the Washington State Public Health Association.

Congratulations to Teaching Assistant Professor Kay Olson, who received the WSU President’s Award for Health for her work organizing COVID-19 vaccination clinics throughout the region. Through her efforts, she “advanced […]

Associate Professor Connie Nguyen-Truong has been named an Academy of Nursing Education Fellow (ANEF) by the National League for Nursing.

Professor Catherine Van Son has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN).

Dr. Shelly Fritz, associate professor of nursing at WSU Vancouver, is the first WSU faculty member to be officially appointed to the Granger Cobb Institute for Senior Living as an affiliate faculty […]

Professor Catherine Van Son of the Washington State University College of Nursing has been selected for the college’s Waldron O. and Janet S. Lindblad Endowed Professorship in Geriatrics.

Health equity means something different to Spanish-speaking agricultural workers, suburban children of color, and Asian families and Pacific Islander families. Yet all these groups face challenges of health equity – […]

Assistant Professor Claire Richards of the Washington State University College of Nursing will study the public health threat posed by the combination of wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and power outages. […]

Roschelle (Shelly) Fritz, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Washington State University College of Nursing, is one of 10 nurse scientists accepted to the second cohort of the Betty Irene Moore […]

Having the authority to prescribe medications as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse includes a host of regulatory, legal, ethical and socioeconomic considerations that may not be emphasized in nursing programs.

A new commentary by WSU College of Nursing Associate Professor Catherine Van Son and Clinical Assistant Professor Deborah Eti proposes that taking a temperature is a less useful indicator of infection in older adults and that a pulse oximeter be used instead. 

Touching patients while providing care is an important and unavoidable aspect of the nursing profession. Nurses can also transform touch into a useful therapeutic tool to improve patients’ – and their own – wellbeing.  

An effort to mobilize WSU College of Nursing students and faculty to administer COVID vaccines to thousands of people has earned Teaching Associate Professor Kay Olson a WSU Health Sciences Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Award.

A record number of WSU College of Nursing faculty achieved promotion and tenure this spring in recognition of their excellence in scholarship, research and teaching. Thank you to all of […]

Near the beginning of the pandemic, an Asian family experienced an overt act of racism at a community center in the Pacific Northwest. It upset the two children so much […]

  When Dr. Kawkab Shishani joined the faculty at The Hashemite University in Jordan, she noticed how many of the student nurses and doctors used tobacco. “I was shocked,” she […]

Students in five rural school districts in Eastern and Central Washington will have access to mental health therapy via telehealth in a new service offered by The Rural Alliance in […]

WSU Health Sciences Chancellor Daryll DeWald and WSU Provost Dan Bernardo are pleased to announce the appointment of an interim team to lead the College of Nursing as Dean Joyce […]

  Only one group of teenagers used marijuana more often after retail sales were legalized in Washington than they did before – high school seniors who work 11 or more […]