Greg Forbes UNMC College of Nursing

Remembering nursing’s Audrey Nelson, PhD

Services will be Oct. 14 for Dr. Nelson, whose career at the UNMC College of Nursing spanned 50 years.

Oct 8, 2025

Audrey Nelson, PhD

Launch party planned for Dr. Hetland’s Family Room website

The evening will feature art gallery from local artist, music and conversation.

Oct 3, 2025

A party and open house will celebrate the launch of familyroom.health.

Cattle feedyard study reaches milestone

Sheri Rowland co-leads a study that explores how stress is associated with physical, mental and social health among workers in cattle feedyards.

Oct 3, 2025

Sheri Rowland, DNP, provides an assessment as part of a study that measures the health of feedyard workers in the region.

Dr. Kirkland gets unique view of state industries

Associate dean of Transformational Practice & Partnerships participated in the IANR Roads Scholar Tour.

Oct 3, 2025

Tracie Kirkland, center row, right of sign, participated in this year's IANR Roads Scholar Tour.

Kearney nursing student completes ROTC nurse training program

Lacy Biltoft spends five weeks at Fort Benning sharpening nursing skills in a military environment.

Oct 3, 2025

Lacy Biltoft, right, participates in skill training during an ROTC summer nurse program.

International phenomenology conference comes to UNMC for second straight year

Susan Bredlau, PhD, phenomenologist and assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Maine, presented her expertise about phenomenology and the informing philosophies.

Oct 3, 2025

Susan Bredlau, PhD, was the traveling philosopher for this year's Institute for Hermeneutic Phenomenology.

UNMC College of Nursing welcomes new leaders

Nursing Dean Lepaine Sharp-McHenry, DNP, welcomes the innovative leaders to help advance the college’s mission.

Oct 2, 2025

Suzanne Nuss, PhD, Tracie Kirkland, DNP, PhD, and Kristi Lynch

UNMC nurse practitioner emergency care program achieves national validation

New post-graduate certificate program approved by American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners.

Oct 1, 2025

Haley Hays, DNP, UNMC College of Nursing, leads an intubation exercise with nursing students Laura Rogers and Jamie Granatowicz in the simulation lab at the Davis Global Center on the Omaha campus. The exercise will be part of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Post-Graduate Certificate program, which welcomes its first cohort in January 2026.

PhD nursing student earns African American Leadership Award

Angela Felton-Coleman was red at the Urban League of Nebraska’s annual African American Leadership Awards ceremony.

Sep 30, 2025

Angela Felton-Coleman, PhD student, left, received an African American Leadership Award as a healthcare leader from the Urban League of Nebraska.

Nursing’s new emergency care program receives full validation

With recognition by the American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners, the ENP program will have its first cohort in January.

Sep 26, 2025

Haley Hays, DNP, UNMC College of Nursing, leads an intubation exercise with nursing students Laura Rogers and Jamie Granatowicz in the simulation lab at the Davis Global Center on the Omaha campus. The exercise will be part of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Post-Graduate Certificate program, which welcomes its first cohort in January 2026.