Virginia Reising, DNP, RN, PHNA-BC
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Illinois Chicago
Virginia Reising, DNP, RN, is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing. Dr. Reising’s clinical experience spans hospital, primary care, and school settings, developing and implementing programming and policy for Chicago Public Schools and managing health centers and health promotion programming across a network of federally qualified health centers. Dr. Reising is the primary investigator on a HRSA Behavioral Health Integration grant with a focus on improving access to behavioral healthcare and opioid use disorder treatment in a primary care and community correctional setting.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration provided emergency use authorization for the first COVID-19 vaccine in December 2020 causing healthcare systems to rapidly develop vaccine distribution models. This talk will discuss how, with faculty leadership, interprofessional students across four health science colleges staffed an academic affiliated hospital’s vaccine clinics to provide over 100,000 vaccinations in five months. Faculty and students from the schools of nursing and pharmacy have previously partnered with the hospital to provide mass influenza vaccination. This established…