School of Nursing & Health Innovations

We invite you to a School of Nursing & Health Innovations Professional Development Committee Event with Dr. Rana Halabi Najjar, PhD, RN, CPNP, Associate Professor OHSU School of Nursing. Dr. Najjar will speak on trauma-informed educational practice: relationship-centered pedagogy as the first layer into brave spaces.

Dr. Najjar teaches across programs at OHSU and her scholarship focuses on bias, discrimination, and equitable and inclusive practices in healthcare education. She is a 2022 AACN Diversity Institute Leadership Fellow and has served on the Western Institute of Nursing Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee since its inception (with our own Dr. Attis-Josias).

All UP faculty and staff are invited to attend via Zoom!

WHEN: Mar 11, 2024 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time (US and Canada)

“Possibilities in Palliative Care: Interprofessional Perspectives” is a 2-credit course introducing students across disciplines to care within the context of serious illness and end-of-life.

During the course, we will explore discipline-specific approaches to care in instances of serious illness and disseminate findings within the course, to develop a broad understanding of how caring manifests across disciplines. Students will develop skills in interdisciplinary coordination and communication using diverse learning strategies, while exploring concepts surrounding humanities, spirituality, grief, and more.

Highlights:  Organize a Death Cafe across campus, and MORE!

Open Invite: The Professional Development Committee in the SONHI is offering a Healing Circle on Friday, December 15, from 2-3 p.m. via Zoom for all interested faculty and staff on campus.

When: Dec 15, 2023 (Friday of final exam week)

Host: Janet M. Banks, DNP, RN, NC-BC

No need to sign up, if you would like to attend you can join on Friday afternoon through this Zoom link: https://uportland.zoom.us/j/96696750397

Questions? Contact Dr. Kala Mayer, mayerk@up.edu, SONHI Professional Development Chair

The Nursing 492 class invites you to join us on November 1, from 5-7:00 p.m. on the quiet side of Commons for a Death Café. We recognize the diverse ways in which members of the University of Portland campus have encountered death in their own lives. The UP Death Café will serve as a place where our community can freely and willingly discuss their thoughts, dreams, and fears about dying and grief in an intimately cultivated space filled with tea, cake, and art. We hope that our community members can safely confront their lived experiences with death while not feeling limited to talking about their experiences in an abstract, metaphorical way. 

We welcome everyone from the UP community to join us, regardless of their major or personal experiences with death and dying. Honoring, validating, and being a compassionate witness to everyone’s story requires that we commit to non-discriminatory behaviors. Personal reflection upon our biases and appreciating the perspectives of each person regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, class, and religious identity is essential to cultivating open and honest conversation. This is a space where diversity, equality, and inclusion are paramount to embracing our community. We ask that only participants who are willing to abide by this agreement take part in this event.  

Food and drinks will be provided, to guarantee snacks and seats, please RSVP here: 

For questions or ADA accommodations, please contact lindbloc25@up.edu.