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In an article published in the Journal of Aging and Social Policy, two researchers from Penn Nursing offer a framework, designed with the input of nursing home leaders, to facilitate internal and external decision-making and collective action to address these threats.
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The challenges of reopening schools are not easy, and there will be a need to maintain systematic quality control in the face of prescribed approaches changing rapidly. In The Journal of School Nursing, Catherine C. McDonald of Penn Nursing and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia addresses a number of challenges that will likely need to be met and how school nurses are positioned to keep children healthy, safe, and ready to learn.
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All the honorees will be recognized during a virtual, end-of-the-year event that is being planned.
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During the COVID-19 crisis, breastfeeding and the provision of human milk to infants is recommended by national and international organizations because it is effective against infectious diseases.
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The course offers online training in best practices for telehealth, including an overview of the field of telemedicine and telehealth, the history of the field, types of telehealth applications, and discusses practical considerations such as issues pertaining to licensure, reimbursement, and workflow.
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Data show that the number of people with clinically complex health and social needs is growing. Programs designed to support these adults have fallen short and the healthcare system is becoming overtaxed by these “superutilizers”.
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Penn Nursing’s Peggy Compton, the van Ameringen Chair in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing and an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Health, will be honored by Sigma Theta Tau International for her contributions to the nursing profession during the 31st International Nursing Research Congress in Abu Dhabi in July.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared 2020 to be the Year of the Nurse and Midwife.
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The grant will support the international partnership of some of the world’s leading Universities led by KU Leuven and the School of Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research.
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The Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing is collaborating with the Humanity School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University to explore the development of nursing in China. “Modern Nursing in China” will research how nursing developed in the country during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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