Nursing

High pay for traveling nurses a symptom and cause of staff shortages

Karen Lasater of the School of Nursing said nursing jobs with good pay and reasonable staff-patient ratios are in short supply. “It’s not a nursing shortage,” she said.

Tired nurse sitting on hospital floor in PPE with mask removed and a hospital staffer behind them.

COVID-19 presents an understanding of nurses’ moral distress during crisis care

Researchers from the School of Nursing found that effective leadership and communication reduced moral distress for nurses providing patients with crisis care during the pandemic.

With COVID-19 still a big problem nationwide, large percentage of nurses struggling with burnout

Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing is quoted on nursing shortages and how funded, permanent, full-time positions in the settings where they’re needed will help.

Guidelines support breastfeeding during parent-newborn separation

A team of scientists led by a researcher from the School of Nursing has established a new clinical practice guideline using an evidence-based approach to support lactation when parents and newborns are separated due to a hospitalization.

The F.D.A. grants full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine

Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing is quoted on the rates of vaccine hesitancy despite FDA vaccine approval.

cancer patient in bed looking out window

Improving patient experiences in cancer clinical trials

Cancer clinical trials (CCTs) provide patients an opportunity to receive experimental drugs, tests, and/or procedures that can lead to remissions. For some, a CCT may seem like their only option. Yet little is known about the experiences of patient participants who withdraw from CCTs.

Yes, nurses are heroes. Let’s treat them like it

Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing wrote an opinion piece calling on policymakers to implement safer nurse-patient ratios. “While we long to go back to pre-COVID life, going back to chronic nurse understaffing in hospitals, nursing homes, and schools would be a big mistake,” she said.

Patient laying in hospital bed while a doctor and a nurse compare notes regarding the patient’s medical chart.

Scaling the model of care for patients with opioid use disorder

Data show that concurrent with the opioid overdose crisis, there has been an increase in hospitalizations of people with opioid use disorder. One in ten of these hospitalized medical or surgical patients have comorbid opioid-related diagnoses.

An illustration of people helping each other move from small pedestal to medium pedestal to large pedestal, in an effort to demonstrate peers helping each other.

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.

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

Reproductive justice in nursing

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

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