SDState Nursing Blog

Catrina is a semester five student in Brookings. She is also working on a Spanish major. Her hometown is Watertown, SD, and she is a mother to Zachary and Asher.

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JoEllen Koerner ’82 M.S. tried to quench her untamed curiosity by driving 180 miles a day twice a week to earn a master’s degree in nursing from South Dakota State University. While she admits that curiosity is alive today, those trips created a connection to the College of Nursing.

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When presented with the issue of the state of South Dakota not having enough nurses to administer insulin to diabetic school-age children, Gloria Damgaard ’88 M.S. and Linda Young ’87/’96 M.S. went to work.

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Alum Brian Brandser, 98'/01' discusses his experience in nursing during the pandemic. He is a critical care nurse in the Intensive Care Unit on the Navajo nation in Shiprock, New Mexico. The facility is part of the Indian Health Service.

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Tearing knee cartilage in high school might have been a bump in Mike Salter’s basketball days, but it was a launching pad to a great career.

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Guest Alumni Blogger Amanda Anthony '06 is the Senior Director, Care Management at UCHealth. She shares about her experience during the pandemic.

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Susan Leddy earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1987 and added a master’s degree and became a nurse practitioner in 1993. She talks about her nursing journey.

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Liz '65 shares an inspiring first hand glimpse of what she accomplished with her SDSU nursing degree.

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A SDSU nursing alum shares a story of the impact a nurse has.

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Tom Stenvig ’91, an associate professor in the College of Nursing, was inducted as a fellow to the American Academy of Nursing Oct. 17, 2015, in Washington, D.C.

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