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Renee Rassilyer-Bomers, 2024 Outstanding Recent Alumna

Renee Rassilyer-Bomers

For her unwavering dedication to helping the community and her continued leadership in the health care sector, Dr. Renee Rassilyer-Bomers is this year’s Outstanding Recent Alumna.

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Voices for Change in Black Maternal Health

Nursing undergraduates turn a year-long population health internship into a peer-reviewed journal article calling for change to lower mortality rates among Black mothers.

After learning about alarmingly high mortality rates of Black women before, during and after pregnancy, Seattle University undergraduate nursing students, Bethany Van Baak, ‘22, and Amy Powell, ‘23, decided they needed to do something.

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Winter Quarter Update and Honoring MLK & Black History Month from Dean Butch de Castro

Butch de Castro, PhD, MSN/MPH, RN, FAAN

It’s been an exciting, energetic, and enriching time for me since stepping into the Deanship of the College of Nursing last July. I’ve gotten better acquainted with faculty and staff throughout our college and the university, and have had wonderful opportunities to engage with our students. Everyone has made settling in easy and enjoyable. I’m so appreciative of the continued warmth and ready assistance extended by all. I can honestly say that I do not feel like I am new to Seattle University anymore. That said, I sincerely look forward to deeper engagement with all that Seattle University offers and greater rapport with all members of its community.
Feb 16, 2024

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Meet the Sauvage Endowed Professorship in Nursing Recipients

Drs. Gayle Robinson and Mo-Kyung Sin

Drs. Gayle Robinson and Mo-Kyung Sin are recipients of the Dr. Lester and Mary Ann Sauvage Endowed Professorship in Nursing for 2023-2024. This professorship named in honor of Dr. Lester and Mary Ann Sauvage, BSN '56, focuses on wellness, disease prevention, and health promotion to improve the physical, emotional and spritual quality of life to help individuals maintain heart health and reduce their risk for cardiac disease.
Feb 16, 2024

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New Academic Nursing Advisory Board

Thank you to all the members of the newly convened Academic Nursing Advisory Board. This advisory board will provide a channel for perspectives from nurses in professional practice, health systems leadership positions, and community-/public-service roles to guide our pursuits to fulfill our mission and actualize our vision. Our College of Nursing leadership team is thrilled to have these wonderful, well-accomplished nurses advise and support us in delivering high-quality education and training across our undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. Many thanks to each of them for agreeing to serve.
Feb 16, 2024

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Staff Spotlight: Rebecca Severson, ‘14, ‘20, Academic Advisor, Advanced Practice Nursing Immersion (APNI) Program

Rebecca Severson, APNI Academic Advisor, College of Nursing

As a double alumna of Seattle University and staff member of the College of Nursing, Rebecca Severson, ‘14, ‘20, has had a long relationship with the SU community, which she describes as both, “holistically formative and transformative. As a student, I felt the mission and values of SU from my faculty and classmates being carried out. As a staff member, I draw from that experience and aim for my students and colleagues to feel cared for and supported as whole, unique persons.”
Feb 16, 2024

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Meet the N. Jean Bushman Chairs in Nursing

Drs. Suzan Griffis Knowles and Melissa Owen

Dr. Suzan Griffis Knowles and Melissa Owen were selected as N. Jean Bushman Endowed Chairs in Nursing for 2023-2024. Established in 1990, the N. Jean Bushman Endowed Chair was the first endowed chair at the Seattle University College of Nursing. Ms. Bushman taught in the College for 35 years before becoming faculty emerita in 1995. Her enduring legacy enables the College of Nursing to strengthen our capacity to ensure teaching, research and practice excellence. 
Feb 16, 2024

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Top Cadet, Jaiden Childs, ’24, Honored as Distinguished Military Graduate

Jaiden Childs BSN student and ROTC Nursing Cadet

Jaiden Childs is a senior in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program and Nursing Cadet in the Brady Battalion Army ROTC at Seattle University. A native Washingtonian, Cadet Childs credits her decision to pursue a career in Army nursing with her passion for leadership and helping others, which she developed at a young age.
Nov 1, 2023

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Staff Spotlight: Brian O'Malley, Simulation Specialist Technician

Brian O'Malley Simulation Specialist Technician

Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, Brian O'Malley joined the College of Nursing’s Clinical Performance Lab team as a Simulation Specialist Technician in 2020. Since then, he’s become an integral part of the team providing a safe, equitable learning environment for SU students to learn through simulation. An avid trail-runner, when not in the office he says he’s usually “prancing out and about in the Cascades,” or hiking Mount Fuji, which he’s done twice!
Oct 17, 2023

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Student Spotlight: Mebel Christian-Ezeofor, DNP ‘26

Mebel Christian-Ezeofor DNP Class of 2026

Mebel Christian-Ezeofor, ’26, is a doctoral student in the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP) program at Seattle University. Her decision to pursue a career in nursing was influenced by her experience growing up in Cameroon, Africa, where she said, “socioeconomic disparities are not only apparent but consequential.” One of her central career goals as a future AG-ACNP, is to focus her efforts on making quality care accessible to everyone, saying “I believe it is my calling to bridge that gap wherever I can.”
Oct 16, 2023

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College of Nursing Faculty, Alumna, Inducted as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing

Drs. Diane Fuller Switzer, Kumhee Ro and Mo-Kyung Sin

Drs. Diane Fuller Switzer, Kumhee Ro, and Mo-Kyung Sin, along with former faculty members, Drs. Sofia Aragon, '97, and Carrie Miller were inducted as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) Saturday, October 7, 2023. These colleagues and other inductees were recognized for their substantial, sustained, and outstanding impact on health and health care.
Oct 16, 2023

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Recent Diagnostic Ultrasound Graduate Published in the Journal for Vascular Ultrasound

Kacey Jaenicke, BS in DIUS Alumna

Kacey Jaenicke is a recent graduate from the post-baccalaureate Bachelor of Science in Diagnostic Ultrasound program at Seattle University. She and her classmate Riley Davis, ’23, had their senior capstone papers published in the September issue of the Journal for Vascular Ultrasound. In her capstone paper, "Deep Venous Thrombosis in the Setting of Fever," Jaenicke discusses the correlation between the incidence of fever and diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT).
Oct 16, 2023

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