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Wisconsin Week, September 23, 2009
"How do you manage your personal health information? From a shoebox? An expandable folder? Your doctor’s new Web-based software?…One of the nation’s few nurse-industrial engineers thinks both individuals and health systems can manage care better if they had better technology. And she’s leading an eight-year-long national effort to come up with a vision for personal health records that will go far beyond the current crop of ideas for helping people make decisions about their own health.
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Op-Ed, The Capital Times, July 27, 2009
"As Congress debates the reform of the American health care system, nurses and the nursing profession must be at the table. Regardless of the health care model that we eventually decide on, nurses can and should be key players in reducing health care costs and increasing efficiency while maintaining the quality of patient care."
President Obama: Health Reform and America's Nurses, YouTube, [MSNBC, July 15, 2009]
"I know how important nurses are and the nation does too. Nurses aren't in health care to get rich—last I checked—they are in it to care for all of us. From the time they bring a new life into this world, till the moment they ease the pain of those who pass from it. If it weren't for nurses, many Americans in underserved and rural areas would have no access to health care at all. And that's why it's safe to say that few understand why we have to pass reform as intimately as our nation's nurses. They see first hand the heartbreaking costs of our health care crisis. They hear the same stories that I have heard across this country…"
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Pioneer Newsroom, April 7, 2009
“The first round of Project HealthDesign taught us that the needs of patients must be the primary drivers of technological innovation,” said Project HealthDesign Director Patricia Flatley Brennan, R.N., Ph.D.…"
Wisconsin Public Radio, Larry Meiller, March 9, 2009, 11:00 a.m.
"…Larry Meiller discusses attempts to ease the nursing shortage in Wisconsin. His guest is UW-Madison School of Nursing Dean Katharyn May."
Wisconsin Public Radio, Larry Meiller, January 22, 2009, 11:45 a.m.
"…Larry Meiller's guest is a researcher into non-drug alternatives to pain management. She is Dr. Kristine Kwekkeboom of the UW-Madison School of Nursing, and a former oncology nurse."
Nursingmatters, January 2009
"Sharon was the glue that held us together," says Professor Emerita Patricia Lasky, Ph.D., RN, former associate dean for undergraduate programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing. "She kept us on target to meet the needs of the undergraduate nursing student."
NBC15.com, Family First: Food Pantry, December 23, 2008
"Dobbin McNatt has been running the former Wexford Ridge now Lussier Community Center Food Pantry for decades. He's never seen a need grow so fast like it has in recent months.
But he's been given great help and guidance from students with the UW Madison School of Nursing."