School of Nursing

Hospitals struggling to attract and retain enough registered nurses at the bedside are implementing alternative strategies to ensure patients get needed nursing care.

Penn Nursing doctoral students are learning to transform their research into bold public policy, empowered by a prestigious scholars program.

A landmark international study finds that hospitals with better nurse staffing and work environments not only benefits nurses but is significantly associated with less physician burnout and job dissatisfaction.

A new study by Penn Nursing’s Derek M. Griffith has found that global and regional sexual and reproductive health policies significantly neglect men’s specific health needs.

Antonia M. Villarruel, the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Penn Nursing, has co-authored a new book, “Systems That Impact Population Health: Past and Present,” which serves as a critical examination of how foundational U.S. systems, including law, education, housing, and health care, have historically shaped and continue to dictate health outcomes across diverse communities.

This is the third cohort of Conway Scholars, funded with a grant from Bedford Falls Foundation, and awarded to 80 high-merit students with financial need.

The Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Population Health and Health Equity University Professor in Penn Nursing and Penn Medicine and director of the Program for Men’s Health Equity has been named the first-ever recipient of the Jimmy Boyd Memorial Award for Leadership in Men’s and Boys’ Health by the American Public Health Association Men’s Health Caucus.

Nurse leaders from Penn’s School of Nursing are redefining care for barriers to sleep, bringing science, innovation, and empathy to restless patients everywhere.

The endowed program, created from a $2 million gift to Penn Nursing by former Penn President Amy Gutmann and her husband Michael Doyle, provides financial aid to equip undergraduate and graduate nursing students with leadership tools and tactics to complement their education.

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the largest specialty nursing association in the world, has made a substantial deposit of historical materials to the School of Nursing’s Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.