Nursing

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.

Penn Nursing’s sixth annual Innovation Accelerator program pitch event expands to include solutions to a foundational challenge: barriers to a healthy workforce for new-to-practice nurses.From Penn Nursing

Villarruel’s appointment as the dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing will be extended for an additional two years, through June 30, 2028.

Three Penn faculty members are among more than 40 experts to author a report addressing the persistent challenge of gun violence and proposing solutions stemming from a JAMA Summit convened last spring.

Outside of her day job as a nurse manager for Penn Medicine at Home, Sherry “Strong Sun Spirit” Caputo has helped bring mental health education, COVID resources, and nutrition programming to her tribal community, the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation in New Jersey.