Associate Professor, Nursing
Renee Colsch has a passion and specialty in the area of neuroscience nursing. Her professional experience includes acute care nursing in the intensive care unit, emergency room, and the United States Air Force deployment in Balad Iraq, 2007. She teaches courses in undergraduate and graduate pathophysiology, leadership and serves as a DNP student mentor. She views the teacher as the facilitator of learning. Her teaching focuses on cultural awareness and sensitivity, holistic nursing, bringing technology into the classroom and practice, evidence-based practice, research, learning, and retention. She completed a Center for Health Equity fellowship and is currently a VA Quality Scholars fellow. Her research centers on sex/gender/racial differences and health inequities. Specifically, she aims to reduce health inequities among stroke and women, and women with multiple sclerosis.
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About Renee Colsch, PhD, RN, SCRN, CQ
Renee Colsch has a passion and specialty in the area of neuroscience nursing. Her professional experience includes acute care nursing in the intensive care unit, emergency room, and the United States Air Force deployment in Balad Iraq, 2007. She teaches courses in undergraduate and graduate pathophysiology, leadership and serves as a DNP student mentor. She views the teacher as the facilitator of learning. Her teaching focuses on cultural awareness and sensitivity, holistic nursing, bringing technology into the classroom and practice, evidence-based practice, research, learning, and retention. She completed a Center for Health Equity fellowship and is currently a VA Quality Scholars fellow. Her research centers on sex/gender/racial differences and health inequities. Specifically, she aims to reduce health inequities among stroke and women, and women with multiple sclerosis.
| Present | Associate Professor, St. Catherine University ‐ Nursing Department | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2021 - Present | GHR Foundation AEG Grant Funding |
| St. Catherine University, Henrietta Schmoll School of Health - 235101 | |
| Role: Primary Investigator | |
| 2020 - Present | Assistantship Mentoring Program |
| St. Catherine University | |
| Role: Primary Investigator | |
| 2018 - 2019 | The Agnes Marshall Walker Foundation |
| American Association of Neuroscience Nurses | |
| Role: Primary Investigator | |
| 2017 - 2019 | A Multidisciplinary MARC U-STAR Program at UND |
| NIH-NIGMS - 1T34GM122835-01 | |
| Role: PhD student | |
| Colleague(s): PI Lindseth, Glenda |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2020 - Present | Education Approver Committee Member, American Association of Neuroscience Nurses |
Honors and Awards
- Summa Cum Laude, Baccalaureate Degrees (Latin Honors), 2014
- 3rd Place Extemporaneous Speaking, MN Skills USA Championship, 2001
- 2nd Place Pre-School Teaching Assistant, MN Skills USA Championship, 2000
- Three Minute Thesis (3MT), University of North Dakota, Finalist, 2019
| 2019 | PhD, University of North Dakota ‐ Nursing | |
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| 2014 | MS, Nursing, Excelsior College ‐ Nursing | |
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| 2013 | BS, Nursing, Excelsior College | |
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| 2005 | Associate of Applied Science, Nursing, Ridgewater College | |
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Contact Information
St. Catherine University
2004 Randolph Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
651-690-6155
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