Faculty

Recent News:

• July 15

  Alzheimer’s Association Helpline Helps Caregivers Take Action, Relieve Stress

  A study – led by Penn Nursing ’s Nancy Hodgson, PhD, RN, FAAN – found the Alzheimer’s Association Helpline offers significant improvements in caregiver’s emotional health. The results were first reported at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2019 in Los Angeles.

  
  
• July 12

  Student Stories: No Puedo Bailar Salsa

  Julianna Shinnick, a Penn Nursing student from Northampton, MA, is in Peru, researching Chagas disease, and recently wrote about her experience, including an evening when she challenged herself to operate outside of her comfort zone and went dancing in a local salsa bar...
  
• July 11

  Bauermeister Selected for Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship

  Twenty one senior health care leaders were chosen to join the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship ’s fifth class and the program’s network of health care entrepreneurs and innovators from across the United States.

  
  
• July 2

  Improving Care Quality for Hospitalized Socially At-Risk Patients

  Nurses play a pivotal role in caring for hospitalized patients with social risk factors and preparing them for discharge. Now, a new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) illustrates how certain health system constraints present barriers to effective care and impact outcomes for patients with high social risks.

  
  
• June 26

  What Influences How Parents and Their Gay Adolescent Sons Talk About Sexual Health at Home?

  Research from Penn Nursing’s Dennis Flores, PhD, found that even when parent-child conversations avoid heteronormative stereotypes, outside factors like mass media and religion—those beyond the parents’ control—can reinforce them.