In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Cynthia Connolly’s book, “Children and Drug Safety: Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth Century America,” won the distinguished Arthur J. Viseltear Prize, which is awarded to a historian who makes outstanding contributions to the history of public health.
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The Ralston House Endowed Term Chair in Gerontological Nursing and a Nurse Scientist at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center is skilled in collaboration and innovation to enhance health care, especially in aging populations.
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The School of Nursing has been re-designated as a World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership for an additional four-year term.
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A collaboration of researchers including Penn Nursing professors released a report in the Annals of Family medicine from an ongoing study on how to improve the transition process from hospital to home.
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Penn Nursing and Penn Medicine call for more consistent guidelines for prescribing opioids for optimal cancer-related pain management and avoiding misuse, in response to some CDC guideline recommendations that are inconsistent with the long-standing cancer pain guidelines.
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The Penn Nursing professor’s lecture, “We Went to Mississippi: Nurses and Civil Rights Activism of the mid-1960s,” will be given at the American Association for the History of Medicine’s annual meeting.
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A list of the award winners who will be honored at the Student-Alumni-Faculty Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 11th.
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The Journal of Obstetric Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing published a special series that detail best practices for the handling, pricing and donating of supplemental breastmilk for newborns. For infants in the NICU, or for mothers with compromised or inadequate amounts of breastmilk, donor milk banks are becoming increasingly popular.
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A list of awards won for excellence in teaching at the Graduate School of Education and the School of Nursing.
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Penn Nursing is again the number one nursing school in the world according to a recent ranking by QS World University. The rankings highlight the world’s top universities in 48 different subject areas (as of 2018) based on academic reputation, employer reputation, and research impact. This is the third consecutive year that Penn Nursing has taken the top spot.
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