Innovative
Research at the School of Nursing
Five School of Nursing faculty have been
chosen as recipients of the prestigious Sigma Theta Tau
International Episteme Research Award, more than any
other school of nursing. While this School of Nursing
received the most NIH funding of any private university,
true scholarship is measured in impact, not in dollars.
To that end, Penn researchers have been:
- Designing and evaluating interventions to
reduce HIV risk-associated sexual behaviors.
Three of evidenced-based interventions have been translated into
programs used both nationally and internationally by community-based
organizations and clinics in high-risk urban areas.
- Developing ways to assess infant nutrition to assist
in producing better developmental outcomes for babies
adapted by researchers worldwide
- Reducing the use of restraints for frail elderly people
in nursing homes and hospitals in this country and others
- Discovering hospital characteristics that attract and
retain nurses, now serving as the basis for “magnet” hospital
designation in a national program replicated in other
countries
- Creating clinical practices to provide living laboratories
for research, and implementing the resulting best practice
models as nurses provide primary care
- Establishing a nomenclature for what nurses do, promoting
the profession while informing national policymakers
transforming the health care system
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