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Students interact with a standardized patient portraying the character John Miller in a vaccine hesitancy simulation that grew out an unfolding case study that will be included in the AACN Essentials Toolkit.

Teaching the Essentials

Apr 05, 2023

Nursing students nationwide will learn important aspects of community health by following family of realistic characters.


Assistant Professor Amy Blok poses with her medical mission colleagues at Hospital Hilario Galindo near Retalhuleu, Guatemala

On a Mission

Apr 05, 2023

An adventure in Guatemala last summer has Amy Blok, DNP, CRNA, hooked on medical missions.





Meagan Whisenant, PhD, APRN

Whisenant named Dunn Distinguished Professor

Mar 09, 2023

Meagan Whisenant, PhD, APRN, has been named the John S. Dunn, Sr., Distinguished Professor in Oncology Nursing at Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston, effective retroactively as of January 1, 2023.