School of Nursing

A team led by researchers in the School of Nursing has developed a multicomponent intervention that uses passive monitoring and behavioral support to help reduce falls in at-risk older adults.

Faculty and doctoral students at Penn Nursing are at the forefront of advancing human milk feeding through a series of research studies, featured in the current issue of The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. The issue, edited by Penn Nursing’s Diane L. Spatz, the Helen M. Shearer Professor of Nutrition and Professor of Perinatal Nursing in the Department of Family and Community Health, highlights articles showcasing critical strategies to enhance lactation care and improve outcomes for families.

The School of Nursing—in collaboration with Penn Medicine, the School of Social Policy & Practice, and the Division of Public Safety—held a disaster simulation, with graduate nursing students responding to volunteer actors injured in a mock explosion.

A new Penn Nursing initiative explores the impact of federally funded international bioethics training programs. The collaborative initiative, published in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, highlights both the significant achievements and ongoing challenges in building bioethics research capacity in low- and middle-income countries.

Tewksbury, an assistant professor in nutrition science in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, has been awarded the 2025 TREO Foundation LEAD Award for Excellence in Nutrition.

A new review by a team of researchers led by Penn Nursing’s Abigail B. Wilpers highlights significant limitations in the existing evidence base for perinatal palliative care in the U.S.

Gilles, a practice professor in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences and associate dean for School and Community Engagement at Penn Nursing, has been named a recipient of the& 2025 AANP State Award for Outstanding Contributions by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

A new study from Penn’s School of Nursing, published in the Harm Reduction Journal, identifies critical factors and strategies for expanding low-barrier wound care services for people who use drugs. The research comes as the rise of xylazine, a tranquilizer found in the street opioid supply, has led to a significant increase in severe necrotic wounds among this population.

How Penn Nursing researchers are ahead of the curve.

Muir, an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Health at Penn Nursing and emergency medicine at Penn Medicine, and a senior fellow in the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research and in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, has won the 2025 Nurse Researcher Award from the Emergency Nurses Association. The award honors individuals who have significantly contributed to the field of emergency nursing through research, dissemination of findings, and/or utilization of research to improve patient outcomes.