Author: lmyers

Sarah Strand ’13: My poster was entitled “Exploration of High School Students’ Perceptions Regarding Mental Health and Mental Health Nursing.” I surveyed 20 high school-aged participants at the Gustavus Summer Institute of Nursing, with each question addressing either participants’ perceptions of psychiatric patients or their perceptions of working in a mental healthcare setting. Upon analysis…

Alyssa Gaulrapp & Alexa Potts: High School Students’ Perception of Nursing The inaugural Summer Institute of Nursing was developed and implemented in the summer of 2012 at Gustavus Adolphus College. Twenty female students between the ages sixteen and seventeen participated in the Summer Institute of Nursing, which was designed to provide high school students the…

Lynnea Myers presented a webinar on March 13 to over 350 participants through the Working Family Resource Center in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Education. The webinar was titled “Social-Emotional Development in the Earliest Years.” The recorded webinar is available here.  

  As part of the Public Health Internship in Atlanta, Assistant Professor of Nursing Lynnea Myers and senior student Alyssa Gaulrapp participated in a docent-led private tour of the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum. Additionally, the faculty member and student met with the Education Director for the Carter Center to learn more about health and…

Two students (Alexa Potts and Cristian Raether) traveled to Fairbanks and Barrow, Alaska for 6 weeks for a maternal health and community health rotation. Students were able to participate in experiences in hospital and community settings, as well as fly to remote villages in Alaska to assist in community health nursing care.

The second annual Summer Institute of Nursing will be held at Gustavus Adolphus College on July 7-11, 2013. Heidi Meyer and Lynnea Myers, Assistant Professors of Nursing, are the co-faculty for this Institute. The Gustavus Adolphus College Summer Institute of Nursing is designed to provide high school students the opportunity to explore the profession of…

Alyssa Gaulrapp, senior nursing and psychology double major at Gustavus, will be the first Gustavus Adolphus College Public Health Intern at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January 2013. Alyssa will be working with Gustavus graduates Dr. Gordon Mansergh with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kristin Unzicker with Emory University…