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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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Terri Simpson, PhD, RN Associate Professor Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems Box 357266 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7266 Email Address: tsimpson@u.washington.edu |
| RESEARCH: Dr. Simpson's research scholarship addresses the impact of supportive care environments on biobehavioral stress responses in persons with cardiac, respiratory, and infectious diseases through multiple methodological approaches. Using a laboratory model, she has analyzed the effects of lipopolysaccharide stimulation on biologic inflammatory responses in healthy subjects, focusing on polymorphisms of an inflammatory and inhibitory cytokine. She recently analyzed health screening and interferon-gamma release assays among populations with varying risk of exposure to tuberculosis. | |
| TEACHING: She directs the Nurse Educator Graduate Certificate Program. She has led the development of curricula on infectious diseases and infection prevention nationally, internationally, and within the UW School of Nursing. Since 2006 she has held an active appointment as a Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where she teaches a course on infection control and serves on doctoral student supervisory committees. | |
| SERVICE: Through several training grants and other funding sources, Dr. Simpson has developed educational products available for others to access, regarding teaching (www.son.washington.edu/portals/nursed/), infectious diseases for undergraduates (http://www.son.washington.edu/portals/idc/), and tuberculosis case studies for graduate students (http://www.son.washington.edu/portals/tb/rc5/index.html) (http://www.son.washington.edu/idi/tbcase/). |
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