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Mentorship an ‘essential ingredient’ for nursing Ph.D. students
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Mentorship an ‘essential ingredient’ for nursing Ph.D. students

A new School of Nursing initiative places doctoral students into small peer-mentorship groups. The researchers who implemented this found it offers an important supplement to one-on-one peer support and faculty advising.

Michele W. Berger

Reproductive justice in nursing
A transgender person wearing a medical gown sits on an exam table speaking to a doctor.

Image: The Gender Spectrum Collection

Reproductive justice in nursing

The Penn chapter of Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health works to expand students’ engagement in Reproductive justice.
100 years of insulin
insulin lab

Homepage image: Laboratory on the University of Toronto campus where Banting and Best carried out some of their research on insulin. (Image: Courtesy of Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto)

100 years of insulin

On July 27, 1921, Canadian doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully isolated the hormone insulin, one of the most important breakthroughs in treating diabetes. Experts from around the University share their thoughts on the medical triumph on the 100th anniversary.

Kristen de Groot

Safe nurse staffing standards in hospitals saves lives and lowers costs
Two masked medical professionals attend to a masked patient, taking their blood pressure.

Safe nurse staffing standards in hospitals saves lives and lowers costs

A new study published in The Lancet Global Health showed that establishing safe nurse staffing standards in hospitals in Chile could save lives, prevent readmissions, shorten hospital stays, and reduce costs.

From Penn Nursing News

Vaccine conversations go door-to-door
Yuhnis Syndor stands on the steps holding a clipboard and wearing a mask, speaking to Cristal LaTorre on their front porch with two children.

Canvasser Yuhnis Syndor, 57, speaks to Cristal LaTorre, 35, about the vaccine in West Philadelphia, PA, on May 20, 2021. (Image: Penn Medicine Service in Action)

Vaccine conversations go door-to-door

Canvasser with the West Philadelphia Vaccine Street Team Pilot Program go door to door to dispel misinformation and show their neighbors that vaccination is safe, by example.

From Penn Medicine Service in Action

Pandemic preparedness, three years early
Students work at a table covered with paper, water bottles and markers.

Participants in the first PennDemic, which took place in 2018, lay out a timeline of the “outbreak.” Two additional simulations have since taken place, with one more scheduled for this coming fall.

  • Q&A

    • Pandemic preparedness, three years early

    In a Q&A, team members behind the outbreak simulation PennDemic discuss how the exercise, now in its fourth iteration, equipped an interdisciplinary group of grad students for COVID-19 and beyond.

    Michele W. Berger

    The pandemic, health inequities, and an ‘opportunity for change’
    covid global map

    As a global pandemic, COVID-19 spread across the world. But it didn’t hit everyone equally. “Being healthy is essential to human flourishing,” says Jennifer Prah Ruger, who advocates for shared norms in health governance to address global inequalities. (Image: Martin Sanchez, also featured on homepage)

    The pandemic, health inequities, and an ‘opportunity for change’

    Experts across the University weigh in on which lessons the pandemic drove home and what immediate measures are needed to prevent future loss.
    Advocating reimbursement parity for nurse practitioners
    Four nurses in gowns and masks standing smiling in a row.

    Advocating reimbursement parity for nurse practitioners

    The current Medicare reimbursement policy for nurse practitioners allows them to directly bill Medicare for services that they perform, but they are reimbursed at only 85% of the physician rate. A new Penn Nursing article argues that payment parity is essential.

    From Penn Nursing News

    Dolores Albarracín appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
    Dolores Albarracín

    Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Dolores Albarracín is the Alexandra Heyman Nash University Professor, director of the Social Action Lab at the Annenberg School for Communication, and the director of the Science of Science Communication Division at the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

    (Image: Courtesy of the School of Arts & Sciences)

    Dolores Albarracín appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

    Albarracín will be the Alexandra Heyman Nash University Professor, with joint appointments in the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Family and Community Health in the School of Nursing. 
    2021 cohort of Postdoctoral Fellows for Academic Diversity named
    a photograph of Penn's college hall framed by green leaves during the summer

    The Office of the Vice Provost for Research announces the 2021 cohort of Penn’s Postdoctoral Fellows for Academic Diversity, the largest in the program’s history thus far. This fellowship program is designed to help postdocs advance their careers while enriching the community of scholars here at Penn. 

    2021 cohort of Postdoctoral Fellows for Academic Diversity named

    The competitive program, managed by Office of the Vice Provost for Research, is designed to support early career researchers and scholars while enriching the Penn community.

    Erica K. Brockmeier