Molly McHugh, BSN, RN
Bio
Molly McHugh is a predoctoral student at Penn Nursing in the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health. She received her BSN from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. Molly began her nursing career in a Surgical ICU before working as a traveling critical care nurse. Molly’s research interests involve community-based palliative interventions for chronically-ill, older adults.
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Seeking Social Justice
All around Penn Nursing, students are volunteering, teaching, organizing, and conducting research with one shared goal: to make the world a fairer place.
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Nursing Students Engage
You’ll find them inside senior centers and on the sidelines of kids’ sports practices.
They’re at free COVID-19 testing sites and packing meals inside local nonprofits. You can spot them presenting legislative resolutions and chatting with marginalized populations about their greatest needs. Just as they have since the school’s earliest days, Penn Nursing students are consistently bringing their skills out of the classroom and into local communities, while learning more about those communities in the process. Whether they choose service-focused classes, student clubs, paid work, or volunteer opportunities, Penn Nursing students today are more tapped into the city around them than ever before. Here’s what that engagement looks like for nine current undergrads.
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Matthew D. McHugh Elected for Membership to the National Academy of Medicine
Matthew D. McHugh, PhD, JD, MPH, RN, FAAN, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Dr. McHugh is the Independence Chair for Nursing Education and Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Associate Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.