Donna Bliss, PhD, RN, FGSA, WOCNF, FAAN

University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Professor

Donna Z. Bliss, PhD, RN, FGSA, WOCNF, FAAN, is a Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis, MN. She is a Horace T. Morse/ University of Minnesota Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher and School of Nursing Foundation Professor of Nursing Research Emerita. Her research program addresses assessment, management and quality of life of individuals with fecal/double incontinence and associated irritant contact dermatitis and enhancing education of nursing students about chronic health conditions using innovative technologies. She has 25 years of funded research and 130+ publications on these topics. She is the editor of the second edition of Management of Fecal Incontinence for the Advanced Practice Nurse published by Springer in Sept. 2025, a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Continence Society, and is on the editorial board of Continence. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, Gerontological Society of America, and was inducted into to the Inaugural Class of Fellows for the WOCN Society in 2023.