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CNPD Research News | August 2025

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Recent Research & Scholarship Activities Reported activities can also be found on the CNPD Publication & Scholarly Work Website Reported as of August 8, 2025 Shout Out to CNPD Faculty & Staff Involved in Governor’s School!   A big thank you to the CNPD faculty and staff who supported the North Dakota Governor’s School activities at UND this summer! Your leadership, […]

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Teaming up for success in health care

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A large group of 100s of students from various programs sit at classroom tables.

More than 350 nursing, pharmacy, therapy, medical and other students take part in UND’s first Interprofessional Healthcare Day. More than 350 students from 11 professions and two universities — UND and North Dakota State University — took part in the inaugural Interprofessional Healthcare Day at UND last fall. Photo courtesy of the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences. […]

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At UND, a new voice for North Dakota nurses

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by Walter Criswell for UND TODAY. University is now home to one of the biggest nursing research coalitions in the state College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines. UND archival photo. Last year, College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines Dean Maridee Shogren approached clinical associate professor Jana Zwilling with a need. CNPD, the College of Nursing Education Administrators and the North Dakota […]

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Healthcare Simulation Week at UND

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The medical simulation teams at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) and College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines (CNPD) are celebrating Simulation in Healthcare Week 2024 Sept. 16-20. The largest and most active center of its kind in North Dakota, the SMHS Simulation Center is a hands-on simulation training facility for multidisciplinary […]

CNPD Spotlight: Ellen Steidl

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As the Director of the Clinical Resource and Simulation Center (CRSC) and a Nursing Clinical Instructor, Ellen Steidl helps to bring innovative simulation experiences to life for students at the University of North Dakota College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines (CNPD). At the CNPD, simulation education and role play are integral to training future nurses, […]

Sim labs train future doctors and nurses

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State-of-the-art simulation labs — some of them unique in the country — help UND health care students hone their skills A College of Nursing and Professional Disciplines student practices preparing a manikin arm for an IV in class. Photo by Walter Criswell/UND Today. Health care practices are evolving, as are the tools that health care […]

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A summit with substance

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Actors portraying patients with addiction disorders bring intensity, realism to College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines training summit The simulations featured real actors playing patients with substance use disorders. This actress plays a patient, Lyla, as a visiting nurse observes the scenario. Photo by Walter Criswell/UND Today. Lyla walks into the emergency room on a […]