{"id":10888,"date":"2022-05-02T16:08:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T16:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10888"},"modified":"2022-05-02T16:08:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T16:08:04","slug":"augsburg-university-honors-nurses-for-excellence-in-transcultural-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/02\/augsburg-university-honors-nurses-for-excellence-in-transcultural-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg University Honors Nurses for Excellence in Transcultural Care"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Augsburg nursing students Valerie DeCora Guimaraes (left) and Jenna Nelson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jenna Nelson and Valerie DeCora Guimaraes, two nurses pursuing advanced degrees at Augsburg University, have received the inaugural Nilsson Transcultural Nurse of the Year Award. Transcultural nursing emphasizes care in culturally diverse settings, including outreach to people who are underserved by traditional care systems and who exist outside of the social mainstream. The award is named for professor emerita Beverly Nilsson, who chaired Augsburg\u2019s Department of Nursing and championed care for people living in poverty.<\/p>\n

Nelson has spent the majority of her career working with marginalized communities as an emergency department nurse. While working to become a family nurse practitioner, she has engaged extensively as an intern and volunteer at Augsburg\u2019s Health Commons. These nurse-led drop-in sites provide hospitality and care to guests from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, many of whom are unhoused or living with mental illness. When the pandemic closed the drop-in locations, Nelson joined a team making weekly food deliveries to local encampments. \u201cJenna truly accompanies people on their journeys, wherever the path may bring her,\u201d said Health Commons Executive Director Katie Clark.<\/p>\n

Guimaraes is the Mayo Clinic\u2019s first Patient Experience Ambassador to work solely with Native American patients. In this role she works to dispel myths about Native American patients and educates colleagues across the Mayo enterprise about health disparities and spiritual care practices. She established a medication initiative to coordinate care with the Indian Health Service upon patient discharge from Mayo, developed a Native American family fund to address food and transportation needs, and successfully advocated to hire additional Native American Patient Navigators in Minnesota and Arizona. \u201cThese successes for Native American patients have not been easy,\u201d said Guimaraes, who is pursuing a doctor of nursing practice degree at Augsburg. \u201cIt is my passion to help my people that keeps me going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Augsburg offers a comprehensive set of programs for nurses who want to advance their careers, including bachelor\u2019s degree completion, master of arts in nursing, and doctor of nursing practice. Health equity and inclusion have been a major focus of the curriculum and experiential learning both locally and globally since the program\u2019s founding. Augsburg\u2019s doctor of nursing practice was one of the nation\u2019s first programs to focus on transcultural nursing leadership.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Augsburg’s nursing programs<\/a> and Health Commons sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jenna Nelson and Valerie DeCora Guimaraes, two nurses pursuing advanced degrees at Augsburg University, have received the inaugural Nilsson Transcultural Nurse of the Year Award. Transcultural nursing emphasizes care in culturally diverse settings, including outreach to people who are underserved by traditional care systems and who exist outside of the social mainstream. The award is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3228,3231,8],"tags":[1246,3240],"class_list":["post-10888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kudos","category-media-advisories","category-students","tag-health-commons","tag-nursing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10890,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888\/revisions\/10890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}