Dean's Blog

Nursing and engineering. What’s the connection? And why is collaboration between these two leading higher education programs essential to our future health care workforce landscape?

The country has been celebrating the contributions of nurses everywhere this May as part of National Nurses Month.

It was wonderful to see so many of you at the recent AACN Doctoral Conference in Coronado, California. I want to extend a special thanks to those of you who attended our hosted reception and round table discussion. So many fabulous ideas came from that session that I’d like to share my notes from the event.

ASU Chief Wellness Officer and Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation Dean Judith Karshmer suggests pivoting from New Year’s resolutions to recognitions.

The end of the year often brings about both times of reflection and anticipation of new things to come. Many people set resolutions as a way to spur themselves to action with a “fresh slate” in the form of a new calendar year. As educators, it’s incumbent upon us to delve deep into what underlies this urge for change, particularly as it relates to continuing and advanced degree education for nursing and health care professionals - in particular, the pursuit of a DNP designation.

What does innovation in health care education look like in a post-COVID world? Clearly, we are not through the woods, but we have learned we can - and must - be adaptable, because at the beginning of the pandemic, there was simply no other choice. The question now becomes: how do we best take lessons learned and use them to drive forward a new era in nursing and health innovation education? Perhaps more importantly, how do we move from talking to acting?

The U.S. health care system needs a nursing workforce ready to serve where needed.

Edson College now offers a Master's of Science in health care simulation.

Sara Crance and Yingyan Huang are often referred to as “Trailblazers.” They are going where no ASU Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation student has gone before. Frankly, there aren’t many like them in the nation.

As the pandemic continues into a second full year, I have to admit it’s been challenging to focus on personal resolutions. Typical goals like wanting to “eat better,” “save more money” or “travel more” seem almost too small when we’re all still facing a virus that continues taking its toll on many of our citizens and health care workers.