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  • New transitional care clinical pathway improves health equity

    People with multiple chronic conditions require complex care management and often experience significant challenges when transitioning from hospital to home. An innovative clinical pathway developed by clinicians, community partners and researchers at Penn Nursing holds promise to improve health equity and support a growing population experiencing adverse outcomes resulting from complex chronic illness, poverty, and structural inequality.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Jane Barnsteiner to receive American Academy of Nursing’s highest honor

    The American Academy of Nursing has named Jane H. Barnsteiner a Living Legend for her significant contributions to nursing and health care over the course of her career. This is the Academy’s highest honor.

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  • The effect of language barriers on brain health equity for Latino populations

    LDI senior fellow and Penn Nursing School associate professor Adriana Perez addressed the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference this summer and addressed how Hispanic/Latino populations are dramatically underrepresented in clinical trials testing potential treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • New tool measures moral distress in pandemic nursing care

    COVID‐19 created novel patient care circumstances that may have increased nurses’ moral distress, including transmission risk and end-of-life care without family present. Moral distress is a growing concern in health care with implications for both provider and patient outcomes. However, until now, established moral distress instruments do not capture these novel aspects of pandemic nursing care.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Penn Nursing designated a WHO collaborating center for nursing and midwifery leadership

    Re-designated for another four years under the directorship of Penn Nursing Dean Antonia Villarruel; co-director Eileen Lake, PhD; and with Nancy Biller as associate director, Penn Nursing will work to increase workforce capacity to improve maternal health in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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  • Amanda Bettencourt appointed president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses board

    Bettencourt is an assistant professor in Penn Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health. “The future of nursing and health care is unknown, and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a newfound urgency for us to work together to find solutions to both long- standing issues and new challenges,” she says.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Penn Nursing appoints inaugural executive director of the Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program

    Kimberly Strauch will direct the first-of-its-kind, tuition-free program dedicated to building a nurse practitioner workforce committed to working in and with underserved communities, both rural and urban.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Health care management: What’s wrong and how to fix it

    A new book provides guidance from Penn experts in health care economics and policy research, authored by LDI Fellows. In the book, “Seemed Like a Good Idea: Alchemy versus Evidence-Based Approaches to Health Care Management Innovation”, 11 experts from the Wharton School, Perelman School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia survey the state of evidence for management practices, and find that in opposition to clinical care delivery, the management of care relies on little rigorous evidence.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Novel sleep education learning modules developed for nurse practitioners

    Sleep health is increasingly recognized as important to overall health, and sleep disturbances and disorders are clinical problems that require diagnosis and management. But when patients present with symptoms and concerns about their sleep disturbances, they often do so to healthcare providers who are not sleep specialists.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Prominent appointments for Penn Nursing’s Diane Spatz

    Professor of Perinatal Nursing and the Helen M. Shearer Term Professor of Nutrition in Penn Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health has two new appointments. Domestically, Spatz has joined the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine work group titled Inclusion of Pregnant and Lactating Persons in Clinical Trials. Internationally, Spatz has been elected to the Board of Directors for the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →