Meet the 2023 Winner - Breanna Hetland, PhD, RN, CCRN-K
Dr. Breanna Hetland is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing and Nurse Scientist at Nebraska Medicine. Her novel program of research focuses on merging technology with nonpharmacological healing approaches to positively engage patients and family caregivers during the critical illness experience.
She graduated summa cum laude from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville College of Nursing. Her clinical experiences include a study abroad medical trip to China and Tibet, a summer externship in the medical intensive care unit at the Mayo Clinic, and 5 years as a critical care nurse at Methodist Medical Center in Peoria, IL and the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN. She obtained her PhD in Nursing with a minor in Integrative Therapies and Healing Practices from the University of Minnesota. Her work has been federally supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research through a Ruth L. Kirschstein F31 Predoctoral Fellowship as well as a T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Symptom Management and Palliative Care Research in Adults with Advanced Disease, which she completed at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. In her most recent study, which was funded by an Impact Research Grant sponsored the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Dr. Hetland and her team developed The Family Room mobile app, a digital platform to promote patient and family involvement in care during acute hospitalization. Additionally, she is conducting a clinical trial evaluating the psychophysiological impact of ParoTM, a therapeutic interactive robot, during rehabilitation sessions in the pediatric ICU. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and her nationally recognized expertise in critical care nursing science and clinical practice has resulted in invited consultations, keynote presentations, and expert commentary.
Description:
This award is given in recognition of outstanding achievement and highest rated abstract submitted by a nurse to a Nursing Assembly category.
Past Recipients of the Assembly on Nursing Marilyn Hansen Award:
2022 - Bruno Saconi, BSN, RN, MS
2021 - Jennifer Burgher Seaman, PhD, RN, CHPN
2020 - Le Ann Matura, PhD
2019 - Tania Von Visger, APRN, PhD (C), CNS, CCNS, PCCCN
2018 - Jennifer R. Mammen, PhD, NP-C
2017 - Lynn Baniak, PhD, RN
2016 - Iain Armstrong, RGN
2015 - Linda Chlan, PhD
2014 - Huong Nguyen, PhD, RN
2013 - Arlene M. Butz, ScD, CPNP
2012 - JiYeon Choi, RN
2011 - Lynn F. Reinke, PhD
2010 - Dor Anne M. Cuenco, PhD
2009 - Maria E. Villanueva, FNP, MSN
2008 - Annette DeVito-Dabbs, PhD, RN
2007 - Lynda A. Mackin
2006 - Gerene S. Bauldoff, PhD, RN and Amy H. T. Davis, PhD
2005 - Bonnie G. Steele
2004 - Cynthia L. French, RN, MD
2003 - Mary Ellen Wewers, MPH, Ph.D.
2002 - Paula Meek, Ph.D.
2001 - Janet Larson, Ph.D.
