Please welcome Jennifer Lutey to the College of Nursing as the Finance Office’s new Purchasing & Buyer Specialist.

Jeni comes to WSU with 15 years experience at EWU where she was involved in transitioning EWU to a new ERP system. Jeni is well versed in Washington

state procurement and we’re excited to have her expertise on our team.

When asked about herself, Jeni said she and her husband enjoy traveling to beach destinations and have visited Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Hawaii, and several islands in the Caribbean.

Jeni can be reached at jennifer.lutey@wsu.edu, NRS136.

The Professional Training Opportunities Program (PTOP) through the Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety offers small grants for research projects and activities that address worker health or safety.

Applicants are welcome from any discipline or field of study, including students earning associate’s degrees as well as undergraduate, graduate or post-doctorate degrees. Applications are also welcome from nonprofit staff and employees at organizations interested in developing expertise in occupational health and safety.

Grants of no more than $10,000 (including direct and indirect costs) will be made to support:

(1)    A research project or demonstration.

(2)    An internship or other learning experience.

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Starting Aug. 4, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) will be required for more than 90 departmental and university-wide applications including Blackboard, Zoom, Outlook, Office 365 applications, and more.

Email:

Outlook (including web version at www.outlook.com) will be the only supported email application. Mobile device users need to be aware of this change and shift to Outlook email and calendar on all devices.

Apple mail and calendar applications are not supported; however, Outlook is offered for Mac users in both desktop and mobile form.

If you are receiving weekly reminders to update your email for MFA implementation, please complete the needed changes to avoid access issues on … » More …

The Nightingale Leadership Series is presented by the University of Washington, and is designed to inspire the next generation of nurses and nurse leaders to “think creatively, collaboratively, and innovatively for the profession’s future of positive impact.” Webinars are offered free of cost to clinical partners, state and federal agencies, and organizations.

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All Current Faculty and Staff,

The College of Nursing Communications Department is working to improve the usability, design, and user experience of the college’s website. As a faculty/staff member at the college who uses the site, your input is extremely valuable and will help inform much needed improvements to the website. Please take a few moments to answer this short survey. Please respond by Wednesday, July 22, 2020.

If link doesn’t open for you, please copy/paste this URL into your browser address bar: https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cNQ2DsWEK1DxhNb
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WSU Health Sciences Spokane recently closed out another productive fiscal year in terms of grants and contracts awarded for sponsored projects.

To learn more about recently funded projects, check out the latest grant and contract award summary, which covers activities funded from April through June of this year. You can find the summary on the Office of Research website.

Join us each Wednesday from noon-1 on ZOOM. Enjoy your lunch and connect with others. https://wsu.zoom.us/j/280183246?pwd=QU9EQUQ4Sk5XQThBeGpINjF6aFFQUT09,

Today’s thought:
“The kindly word that falls today may bear its fruit tomorrow.”

Each week our Healthy Work Culture committee will offer a thought for the day, and information about upcoming events. If you have something to contribute, please send them to Mike Lynch, at michael.lynch@wsu.edu.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for more WSU applications including Office 365, Blackboard, Adobe, Cougar Card, and more, is rescheduled for the evening of August 4.

Why MFA? Why Now?

With more than 80% of all data breaches being due to compromised individual login credentials, MFA is the reigning security standard across many industries including higher education, health care, defense and finance.

Universities such as WSU are a prime target for cyber criminals due to the collaborative access provided between user accounts. A single university account holder might have direct access to sensitive information across multiple academic and business departments including research, payroll, student data and more.

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The College of Nursing communications department has worked with college leadership to design and develop the State of Affairs 2020 document for the college. This document includes updates and information about the following:

History of the college
Updated Org Chart
Strategic Plan
Opportunities, Challenges, and Summer Activities for all college campuses, programs and departments

You can read the State of Affairs online.

WSU College of Nursing faculty and preceptors are invited to participate in free continuing education courses.

The courses were developed by content experts and are partially funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration. Currently the following three free courses are offered, with another two courses to be added soon. You can now view the following:

Improve Your Preceptor Skills: Best Practices: developed by Sarah Fincham, Clinical Assistant Professor at the WSU College of Nursing, and Todd Smith, ARNP at CHAS Health.
In this course participants will learn to identify key elements of an effective clinic orientation checklist, describe steps of … » More …