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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Trustees’ Council of Penn Women Gift Supports West Philadelphia Women
Penn Nursing’s West Philadelphia Women’s Day event will continue, thanks to a new grant from The Trustees’ Council of Penn Women (TCPW). Funding from TCPW will support Dr. Wendy Grube’s partnership with women from the medically underserved West Philadelphia community to investigate their most pressing health concerns and move forward with a second West Philadelphia Women’s Day event.