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Renee Rassilyer-Bomers, 2024 Outstanding Recent Alumna

Renee Rassilyer-Bomers

For her unwavering dedication to helping the community and her continued leadership in the health care sector, Dr. Renee Rassilyer-Bomers is this year’s Outstanding Recent Alumna.

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Voices for Change in Black Maternal Health

Nursing undergraduates turn a year-long population health internship into a peer-reviewed journal article calling for change to lower mortality rates among Black mothers.

After learning about alarmingly high mortality rates of Black women before, during and after pregnancy, Seattle University undergraduate nursing students, Bethany Van Baak, ‘22, and Amy Powell, ‘23, decided they needed to do something.

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Videographer: Carter Johnson, Seattle University

Recent Diagnostic Ultrasound Graduate Published in the Journal for Vascular Ultrasound

Kacey Jaenicke, BS in DIUS Alumna

Kacey Jaenicke is a recent graduate from the post-baccalaureate Bachelor of Science in Diagnostic Ultrasound program at Seattle University. She and her classmate Riley Davis, ’23, had their senior capstone papers published in the September issue of the Journal for Vascular Ultrasound. In her capstone paper, "Deep Venous Thrombosis in the Setting of Fever," Jaenicke discusses the correlation between the incidence of fever and diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT).
Oct 16, 2023

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Dr. Jaime Navetta, SU Alumna, to Serve as Interim Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs

Jaime Navetta, DNP, RN, CNE, Interim Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs

Jaime Navetta, DNP, RN, CNE, who began her one-year appointment as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs at the College of Nursing on August 1, 2023, is a graduate of both its Doctor of Nursing Practice and Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs. She also has an established track record with the undergraduate nursing program having served as both a faculty academic advisor and assistant clinical professor.
Oct 16, 2023

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Meet the New College of Nursing Dean

Butch de Castro, PhD, MSN/MPH, RN, FAAN

Dr. Butch de Castro has been appointed the next Dean of Seattle University’s College of Nursing and will hold the Robert J. and Mary H. Bertch Endowed Professorship in Nursing Leadership, he will join Seattle University on July 1.
Mar 31, 2023

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Sibling Support Enhances Success

Amber Rodriguez-Munoz and Eva Rodriguez standung together in thier commencement gowns

Commencement is a major milestone for family and friends to gather and celebrate the graduates in their lives. For Amber Rodriguez-Munoz and Eva Rodriguez, they had the unique experience as members of Seattle University’s Class of ’22—graduating magna cum laude side by side as sisters.
Jul 1, 2022

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Alumni Spotlight: Simon Adriane Ellis, ’12, CNM, ARNP Forwards Social Justice in Midwifery and Patient Care for LGBTQ+ Community

Simon Adriane Ellis, ’12, CNM, ARNP

A Certified Nurse Midwife, Ellis is a parent and transgender and non-binary person using he/they pronouns. They are passionate about the need for clinically competent and culturally proficient care for transgender and gender non-conforming patients and for health care environments that welcome people of all gender identities.
Feb 18, 2022

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Doctor of Nursing Practice Nurse-Midwifery Program Granted Continued Accreditation for 10 Years

The Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME) has granted continued accreditation to the Nurse-Midwifery program for ten years, the maximum allowed. Since 2009, the Nurse-Midwifery program at Seattle University has prepared 65 MSN and 79 DNP graduates, as well as 6 post-graduate certificate midwives all of whom provide critically needed care in the U.S. and around the world.
Oct 28, 2021

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National Nurses Week Message from Dean de Castro

Butch de Castro, PhD, MSN/MPH, RN, FAAN

Today marks the beginning of National Nurses Week (May 6-12)! We honor each one of our faculty, staff, students, and alumni who represent Seattle University College of Nursing so well throughout our city, region, state, and nation. We also beam with pride and optimism of the impact that our immediate next cohorts of nurses who complete our undergraduate and graduate programs will make as they move onto professional practice with brilliance as Redhawk Nurses. And, beyond that, we, of course, pay tribute to all nurses globally who selflessly dedicate their lives to bettering the health and well-being of others

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