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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New Director for Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
Matthew McHugh, PhD, JD, MPH, RN, FAAN, the Independence Chair for Nursing Education and Professor of Nursing, has been appointed the Director for the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR). The appointment was effective as of January 1, 2021. CHOPR was established in 1989 by Dr. Linda Aiken as one of the first centers to scale up rigorous research on the impact of nursing on patient outcomes. It uses evidence to inform policy and produces the next generation of nurse scientists.