All faculty are asked to upload their course syllabi each term to our Syllabi Warehouse, located on our SharePoint online Intranet. It is important that all faculty upload their syllabi. We need these on file for accreditation. You can access and upload all syllabi at this link: https://emailwsu.sharepoint.com/sites/Nursing/SitePages/Syllabi-Warehouse.aspx.

Please follow these instructions to upload your syllabi.

If you have questions or need assistance, contact Sarah Schaub at sarah.schaub@wsu.edu.

In honor of MLK Day, WSU Health Sciences wants to bring together community members from across the campus to celebrate and carry on Dr. King’s legacy. Please join a virtual event on Tuesday, Jan. 19 from noon – 1 p.m. for a campus-wide Keynote Event presented by Kiantha Duncan, NAACP President and community leader.

Duncan is an accomplished community builder and community organizer who has experience bringing people together to have challenging conversations and develop solutions for problems facing our region and our society. Among other roles, she currently serves on the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Terrain Arts Organization, Carl Maxey Advisory Board, and … » More …

The Department of Health has provided this helpful resource about the impacts of COVID on Mental Health.

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Join our webinar featuring Christine Savage, PhD, RN, FAAN, author of Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations, to see how the new iteration of Healthy People 2030 addresses the latest public health priorities and challenges.

When: Monday, January 25th, 2020 @ 11:00 AM EST

Click here to register >

Bioethics Grand Rounds: SARS-COV-2 Vaccine Safety and Allocation | January 27, 2021
Noon-1:00 PM

Bioethics Grand Rounds are sponsored by the Elson S Floyd College of Medicine Certificate Program in Medical Ethics, offered in collaboration with the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Regional Ethics program.

» Register online 

» Download event flyer

Dr. Lois James and Dr. Stephen James were both quoted in this article in The Spokesman-Review Sunday about law enforcement use of force in the Capitol riot.

In addition, Steve James will be interviewed by Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich Tuesday morning for the sheriff’s weekly podcast, Sheriff’s Report. You can find that episode once it posts at the Sheriff’s Report website.

Faculty and students:

We have been getting information about COVID vaccine opportunities around the state.  Here is the current information we have received, I have no doubt more opportunities will come and we are advocating for this wherever we can bend an ear.  At this moment the College of Nursing does not have vaccinations to offer students, faculty or staff

Tri-Cities: We are waiting to hear back from community partners. No information at this time.

Vancouver: An opportunity for vaccination is under development. Linda Eddy will be the contact (leddy@wsu.edu) once plans are in place.

Yakima: We are waiting to hear back from community … » More …

Dear faculty,

Please note that your class may be impacted by the planned Blackboard outage.  Blackboard Learn will be unavailable for an upgrade from 2:30 p.m. (PST), Wednesday, January 13 until 6:30 a.m. (PST), Thursday, January 14.  This upgrade cannot be postponed nor rescheduled.

If you have classes or office hours over Zoom during this timeframe, please be aware that your students will not be able to log into Blackboard to join the Zoom meeting via the “JOIN” button.   As such, we recommend that you send your students the direct link for the Zoom meeting to your class via email.

After … » More …

A much easier process for completing employee attestation using the “WSU Mobile” App – launched this week:

If you haven’t already downloaded and installed the WSU App, please do that first. You can downloading the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
If you haven’t already logged into the WSU App, please do that next.
Open the App.
Locate the new Attestation tile. If you have previously customized the locations of the tiles in your App, the attestation tile may be located at the bottom of the list. Otherwise, it should appear at the top.
View your … » More …

Texas Christian University’s Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences is offering the Hogstel Gerontological Nursing Symposium in January. The event is free for students, with 4.5 contact hours available for faculty and others.

Students, faculty, family care partners, and community members are welcome.  Please email bmastelsmith@uttyler.edu for an access code for free student participation.

When: Online, three Saturday mornings in January from 10:30am to 12:00pm (CST)

January 16:  Dr. Anne Basting, scholar and artist, will talk about ways to engage people with cognitive disabilities and dementia.

January 23:  Teepa Snow, Occupational Therapist and international educator on dementia, will share tips for caring during a … » More …