Welcome, Alumni!

2025 Nursing Alumni Award winners pose with Dean Jill Guttormson

The ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß Nurse is educated with a focus on courage and care, putting Jesuit principles into practice to drive positive change for people, communities, health care and the profession. ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß Nurses are uniquely qualified for this calling because of their commitment to five principles:

  • Courageous leadership
  • Critical thinking
  • Advocacy for the vulnerable
  • Caring for the whole person
  • Championing social justice

More than 10,000 ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß Nurses live these values in their everyday practice as they courageously lead in health care settings around the world. Wherever patients and communities are in need, a ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß Nurse is there to answer the call with skill and compassion in equal measure.

Nursing students walk by Straz Hall, the home of the College of Nursing.

Stay Involved with the College of Nursing

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By making a gift to the College of Nursing, you are creating opportunities for the next generation of ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß Nurses to make a difference in their communities.

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Come chat with your fellow ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß Nurses from all around the world!

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We love it when our alumni come back to visit with us and with each other! Check out the full alumni events calendar to see all the opportunities for engagement.

- Volunteer to become a preceptor

¸£ÀûÔÚÏß guarantees every advanced-practice nurse a preceptor placement. It's a unique benefit we can only offer because of our generous preceptor network. Contact Clinical Placement Coordinator Christine Glynn at christine.glynn@marquette.edu for more information!

-Share your ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß Nursing story

In honor of ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß Nursing's 90th anniversary, we are collecting alumni stories about how they've been the difference for patients, for the profession and for their communities. Have one that you want to share? Reach out to Advancement Representative Susan Nieberle at susan.nieberle@marquette.edu.


90 Years of Excellence: Alumni Stories

Nursing alumnus finds purpose in treating incarcerated individuals

Braden WolthuisBraden Wolthuis does not ask what the patient lying in front of him has been charged with, nor how the judge ruled in their case. Where others see prisoners, Wolthuis simply sees people in need of care.

‘Community rules everything around me’: A conversation with ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß Nursing alumna Dominique Hyatt-Oates

Dominique Hyatt-Oates holding an award.

A focus on community is what led DE MSN alumna Hyatt-Oates to her current job as deputy commissioner of policy innovation and equity for the City of Milwaukee Health Department. The Young Alumna of the Year award winner for the College of Nursing took time to speak with ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß Today to talk about her career as a public health nurse practitioner.

Nursing alumna Kathleen Blaney protects public health 

Kathleen Blaney

COVID-19 was a baptism by fire for Kathleen Blaney, a ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß Nursing alumna who served as the clinical director of New York City’s contact tracing program. Six years later, she is putting the skills she learned trying to control the pandemic’s spread to use, directing all nursing activities for ambulatory care and population health for New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest municipal public hospital system in the country. In a Q&A with ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß Today, Blaney shares the lessons she learned from her career in public health.