Anessa Foxwell, BA, MS, MSN
Bio
Anessa Foxwell is a predoctoral student at Penn Nursing and a fellow in the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health. Anessa is a second-degree nurse who attended the Master’s Entry Nursing Program at DePaul University, then received her MSN from Penn in 2012. She started her nursing career at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania on an oncology unit, then joined the Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation Service as a Nurse Practitioner. During her clinical work, Anessa found herself providing support to clinicians who were distressed by clinical care. Her research focuses on exploring clinician distress while caring for those with serious illness.
Research Experience
- Methodological interests
- Mixed Methods
- Ethnography
- Research Experiences
- Palliative Care & Oncology Nurse Practitioner
- Guest Lecturer at Penn Nursing
Highlights
- American Journal of Nursing’s 2019 Book of the Year Awards
- Advanced Practice Nursing Book of the Year: Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing 5th edition (Contributor), December 2019,
- Hospice & Palliative Care Book of the Year: Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing 5th edition (Contributor), December 2019
- Penn Medicine: Advanced Practice Education Award
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: The Excellence in Dissemination Award Peer-Reviewed Publication - Direct Care
- Awarded to Barbara Reville & Anessa Foxwell for publication Competency Milestones: Guidelines for Advanced Practice Palliative Nurses, December 2017
Related News
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Humans of Penn Nursing: Anessa Foxwell, MSN, CRNP, ACHPN, GNu’12
“On December 28th, , I received my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and it was…anticlimactic. There were no fireworks. No tears of joy. The biggest thrill was seeing a few co-workers that I had not seen in a while.
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Investing in Women’s Mental Health, a new paper by Foxwell, Kennedy & Naylor
In a new commentary, predoctoral students Anessa Foxwell and Erin Kennedy, and NewCourtland Center director Mary Naylor, discuss the urgent need to address mental health challenges experienced by women during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Anessa Foxwell in The Philadelphia Inquirer
An Expert Opinion: On the coronavirus front lines: Part-time nurse, full-time worry, and suggestions for what we can all do now to prepare for the unknown.