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Doug and Carla Salmon Basis helps nursing alumna obtain goals

For years it was Rachel Emshoff’s dream to someday turn out to be a registered nurse.

Emshoff, a UWO nursing grad, clearly remembers the day she made the choice to pursue a level in nursing.

“I used to be within the hospital having my third child. I had the identical midwife for all three of my deliveries and she or he tremendously impressed me to pursue a profession in girls’s well being,” she mentioned. “That night time within the hospital, I made a decision I might get an schooling to assist my three infants.”

This determination, nonetheless, was a lot simpler mentioned than executed. On the time, she was in an abusive marriage and didn’t have a lot of a assist system. That night time within the hospital, she additionally made the tough determination to file for divorce, making her a single mom with only one earnings to assist her and her three kids.

Rachel Emshoff

“I had my child woman in October, filed for divorce quickly after and that following summer season I enrolled on the UW Oshkosh, Fox Cities campus,” she mentioned.

On prime of being a full-time scholar, Emshoff volunteered as a Fox Cities campus ambassador and labored a number of jobs so as to make ends meet. Nonetheless, she was struggling to financially assist herself and her three kids alone.

That’s when the Doug and Carla Salmon Basis stepped in to assist with scholarships as wanted all through her school profession.

With assist from the inspiration, Emshoff was capable of focus extra on her research and work tougher towards her objective of turning into a nurse. She finally transferred to the Oshkosh campus to complete her bachelor’s in nursing in 2016.

Emshoff has since moved to Warner Robins, Georgia, the place she is working towards nursing remotely from house. “I thank the Salmon Basis for tremendously bettering my life and serving to me to be a optimistic function mannequin for my youngsters. Now my dream is to assist others in life.”

Provost John Koker (left) views the UWO Hmong analysis exhibit.

Xiong presents at Analysis within the Rotunda

Appleton native and junior nursing main Amy Xiong teamed with two different college students and Mai See Thao, UW Oshkosh’s Hmong Research director, to current the community-based exhibit Cia Siab in Wisconsin: A HMoob Story on the 18th Analysis within the Rotunda in Madison in March. The exhibit included tales, artifacts, objects and creative representations of historic trauma, resilience and therapeutic of the Hmong individuals in Wisconsin.

Thao mentioned the coed work reveals how analysis can cowl a variety of territory if you consider it as “a scientific investigation.”

The scholars are planning to create a touring exhibit that can tour by Wisconsin within the yr 2025. They hope to generate affect and assist American historical past incorporate the Hmong narrative.

Left to proper: Jennifer Wollert, Rhonda Guse, Michelle Fuss, Adrienne Benbrooks and Kimberly Vanevenhoven

Three alumni honored with Nightingale Awards

UW Oshkosh alumni Adrienne Benbrooks ’99, of ThedaCare Regional Medical Middle–Appleton, and Jennifer Wollert ’07, of the Wisconsin Useful resource Middle, earned 2022 Nightingale Award of Excellence in Nursing Apply honors at a ceremony held in April on the Culver Household Welcome Middle.

The 2022 Nightingale Nurse Chief Award recipient additionally was a UW Oshkosh alumna: Kimberly Vanevenhoven ’10 and ’14 MSN, of ThedaCare Medical Middle–Waupaca.

Benbrooks serves as registered nurse for the household start care unit inside ThedaCare Regional Medical Middle–Appleton and supplies knowledgeable labor, supply and postpartum look after sufferers. She has turn out to be the unit’s postpartum hemorrhage knowledgeable, getting ready the crew by operating emergency drills and educating new staff on finest practices and protocol to save lots of lives.

As a nurse clinician on the Wisconsin Useful resource Middle, Wollert cares for psychological well being sufferers from the division of corrections and county jails. Though there are challenges concerned with caring for sufferers coping with psychological well being and authorized challenges, she is ready to navigate these conditions with compassion and objectivity.

Vanevenhoven has devoted over 13 years to nursing excellence and management. At present serving as RN medical supervisor at ThedaCare Regional Medical Middle–Waupaca, she manages the household start middle, medical/surgical division and intensive care unit. Although brimming with management and administrative duties, she by no means loses sight of the worth nurses play in direct affected person care.

Further Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing Apply recipients embody Michelle Fuss, of Kids’s Wisconsin–Fox Valley; and Rhonda Guse, of Waupun Memorial Hospital.

Nursing college students current capstone tasks

Nursing college students spent at the very least two semesters planning and researching matters earlier than presenting their capstone tasks on the UWO Honors Thesis Symposia in Could. Seniors, their challenge titles and college advisers included:

• Meghan Colley, of Bartlett, Illinois, introduced An Integrative Assessment of the Obstacles for Intensive Care Unit Nurses Offering Proof-Based mostly Apply of Delirium Administration. The challenge was accomplished with adviser Wendy Bauer.

• Katelyn Collins, of Roscoe, Illinois, introduced Understanding Scholar Nurses’ Approaches to Ache Administration. The challenge was accomplished with adviser Jason Mott.

• Sydney Draeger, of Wausau, introduced Undergraduate Nursing College students’ Views of Entry into Apply throughout the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The challenge was accomplished with adviser Wendy Bauer.

• Bailey Krause, who additionally majored in Spanish, of Dorchester, introduced Disparities in Latina Girls’s Healthcare. The challenge was accomplished with adviser Isabel Álvarez.

• Chloe Ricciardelli, of Waukesha, introduced Obstacles to BSN Training amongst ADN- and Diploma-Ready Nurses. The challenge was accomplished with advisers Teresa Blakeslee and Paula McNiel.

• Morgan Thiele, of Poynette, introduced A Scoping Assessment of Affected person-Centered Nurse Communication for Self-Administration Help in Integrative Well being. The challenge was accomplished with adviser Wendy Bauer.