In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn Nursing’s Terri Lipman was on hand in Harrison to urge lawmakers to pass Pennsylvania Senate Resolution 484, which recognizes November 2018 as National Diabetes Month in the Keystone State.
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To optimize post-acute care decision-making, a team led by the School of Nursing developed, validated, and tested a two-step clinical decision support algorithm called Discharge Referral Expert System for Care Transitions (DIRECT).
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Researchers from the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at Penn Nursing investigate whether hospitals have implemented a key National Academy of Medicine recommendation—to improve nurse work environments and assure adequate nurse staffing—and whether these changes corresponded to improved patient safety, as reported by patients and nurses.
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The nursing and sociology professor and Dean Emerita was awarded for her contributions to the nursing and/or midwifery profession, advancing the nursing profession, and contributing to the health and wellbeing of people in Thailand and around the world.
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Julie Sochalski, associate professor, associate dean for Academic Programs, and the Class of 1965 25th Reunion Term Chair at Penn Nursing, received the 2018 American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Lois Capps Policy Luminary Award, on Sunday, October 28, during the Academic Nursing Leadership Conference in Washington, D. C.
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Bridgette Brawner, 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.
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Of the eighteen new Senior Fellows to the Leonard Davis Institute, three members are from Penn Nursing: Nancy Hodgson, Ariana Chao, PhD, and Pamela Cacchione.
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Trout is an assistant professor of women’s health in the Department of Family and Community Health, and the track lead of the Nurse-Midwifery Graduate Program.
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The best practice recommendations related to feeding tube location verification in pediatric patients are now available online as a special report in the journal Nutrition in Clinical Practice. Penn Nursing’s Sharon Y. Irving is the lead author on these recommendations.
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The biennial award honors a Penn Nursing faculty member who has made a distinguished contribution to nursing scholarship. Bowles is the van Ameringen Chair in Nursing Excellence and a professor in Penn Nursing’s Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences.
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