2025 Recent Graduate Achievement Award
Alexis Skuras, BSN ’18, DNP ’23, is the Spring 2025 Michigan State University College of Nursing Recent Graduate Achievement awardee. This award recognizes an alum who graduated within the past 10 years and has obtained a high level of professional accomplishments including but not limited to: contributions to their employer, history of promotion, military accomplishments, continued education, or published work.
Alexis is an educator, student and doer. From a young age, Alexis had always thought she would become a teacher. Upon arriving at Michigan State University, she found that nursing would be the perfect field to do just that — to serve as a teacher to her patients. Alexis received her BSN from the MSU College of Nursing in 2018 and then worked as an RN at Harper Hospital in Detroit.
Following her passion for education, Alexis returned to MSU to earn her Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist DNP in 2023, finding it to be the perfect combination of patient care, evidence-based practice and nursing education. As someone who loves to learn and is the first college graduate of her family, Alexis considers earning her doctorate her biggest achievement.
This accomplishment has launched her into the next phase of her career. Alexis is currently a clinical nurse specialist at the 501c3 non-profit organization, Recovery Mobile Clinic (RMC) and is the first to join their team since it was founded in 2020. The clinic specializes in the care of patients with substance use disorders. The RMC takes an integrated care approach to address basic primary care needs and mental health to set up patients for success in their recovery, such as by administrating 1,159 of the revolutionary Vivitrol shots in 2024, which manage cravings and prevent relapse.
Alexis also teaches undergraduate students part-time as an assistant professor at MSU’s Detroit Campus during the summers. Additionally, she mentors DNP students from MSU and Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU), often taking them on the road with the RMC to gain hands-on experience.
Earning her doctorate was not where Alexis ended her education. She is currently enrolled at SVSU to earn her psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner certification. Her favorite way to spend her spare time is having fun with her one-eyed Pitbull, Fetty.
Upon reflection, Alexis called her years as an MSU student the best time of her life, attributing the friends she made and the mentorship she received from faculty, such as Jackeline Iseler and Emily McIntire. Alexis lives out the Spartan will by working toward a future with less stigma and barriers to care for people with substance use disorders.