Raymond Richard Blush, NP

Scholarly Expertise / Activity

Interests:

•Emergency Department care
•Acute care settings
•Patient-clinician communication

Ray Blush is an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner who has grounded his career in emergency and observation settings. Because of his experience in this field, Ray has been part of teams that develop observation units, bringing forth the much valued nurse/medical provider standpoint. Additionally, he has developed an evidence based practice focused on the care of patients in these settings which he enjoys sharing with his students who he works with in the Emergency Department and Observation settings.

Teaching:

He is a Clinical Assistant Professor and the Program Lead for AGACNP/CNS Programs at the University of Michigan School of Nursing.

Ray's teaching role is dually-faceted in that he has had the opportunity to work with graduate nurse practitioner students in the classroom as well as in acute care clinical setting. As a classroom instructor, Ray leads several seminar classes as well as specific lectures with some examples of classroom content being a wound repair lab with hands on practice and x-ray and EKG interpretation. From a clinical vantage point, Ray has had the opportunity to evaluate graduate students in their precepted clinical sites as well as directly precept students in the clinical setting. He also serves as a clinical site instructor for the second degree nursing student in the acute care setting.

Internal medicine, observation settings, emergency department 

University of Michigan Health participates with most health insurance plans.

Patient clinician communication, patient heath behavior motivation