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America's No. 1 Nursing School
For more than 20 years, the University of Washington School of Nursing has been ranked America's No. 1 nursing school, including 17 years atop the U.S. News and World Report list, which began ranking nursing schools
in 1993.
Emphasizing Research
and Teaching
Six degree programs, multiple specialties, continuing education opportunities and world renowned research are part of the UW School of Nursing's goal of addressing society's most pressing challenges in health care. Students: Oliver Liscano and Joann Ucol.
Stay Connected
The School of Nursing is grateful for the support of its outstanding alumni, friends and community partners. Many participate as clinical preceptors, advisers and volunteers, and provide financial support for our students, faculty and programs.
Recognizing Leaders in Nursing
Every year the UW School of Nursing honors local and national leaders for their important contributions to the field of nursing and pays tribute to our community's most accomplished nurses and health care leaders at the annual Nurses Recognition Banquet.
Advancing Nursing Research
With a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and patient care the UW School of Nursing is the No. 3 Nursing School in research funding from the NIH, with six centers of excellence and over 185 active and pending research projects.
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Susan T. Blackburn, PhD, FAAN, RN Professor Emeritus Family and Child Nursing Box 357262 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7262 Email Address: sblackbn@u.washington.edu |
| Susan Blackburn is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family Child Nursing. Her teaching, research, service and practice activities focus on care of preterm and other high-risk infants and their families. Dr. Blackburn currently teaches courses focusing on content related to maternal, fetal and neonatal physiology, human embryology and genetics, and neonatal nursing. Her research has focused on the effects of the neonatal intensive care unit environment on preterm infants and interventions to reduce the stresses of this environment. She is a columnist and editorial board member for the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, lead for the Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing Test Work Group for the National Certification Corporation for the Obstetrical, Gynecological and Neonatal Nursing Specialties, and a member of the Nurse Advisory Council of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. Dr. Blackburn is the author of Maternal, Fetal and Neonatal Physiology: A Clinical Perspective, currently in its 4th edition. | |
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