Faculty

Recent News:

• October 22

  Presbyterian Student Nurses- A Case Study of a Hospital Training School

  We take a closer look at the Presbyterian Hospital Training School for Nurses’ student ledgers to highlight the number of students caring for patients, how many contracted influenza, how many were sick from other ailments or were healthy, and how many died.
  
• October 19

  Article of the Year for Brawner

  Bridgette Brawner, PhD, MDiv, APRN, Associate Professor in Penn Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health, has won the 2018 Richard L. Sowell Article of the Year Award from the  Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (JANAC).

  
  
• October 19

  President’s Engagement Prize Recipient Helps Children in Mexican Orphanage Fight Infectious Disease

  Alaina Hall’s nonprofit project is a nurse-led multi-interventional health-promotion effort that aims to address the global health problem of infectious disease in children. Working in partnership with the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos orphanage in Miacatlán, Mexico, Hall will work to improve health education for children and their caregivers, strengthen infection screening and identification processes, and reduce exposure to infection-causing pathogens by providing filtered water and repairing damage to local sewage structures.
  
• October 17

  New Scholars Named to Promote Research into the Influence of Gender on Health

  Traditionally, many health-related research projects focused only on males, assuming that females’ bodies would respond the same way to a given intervention or drug. But more often, scientists are uncovering important distinctions between men’s and women’s health, pointing to the need for dedicated attention to understand the intricacies of the differences.

  
  
• October 15

  American Academy of Nursing Announces New Fellows

  Ten nursing professionals with ties to Penn Nursing will be inducted as 2018 Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). One is a current doctoral student and a Robert Wood Johnson Future of Nursing Scholar. The other nine are Penn Nursing alumni. All of the inductees will be honored at a ceremony during the AAN’s annual policy conference, Transforming Health, Driving Policy, taking place November 1-3, 2018, in Washington, D.C.