In Nursing We Trust
The past year has propelled America’s most trusted profession into the spotlight, with the World Health Organization’s designation of 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife followed by the unprecedented and continuing challenges posed by COVID-19. Penn Nursing alumni and faculty weigh in on coping with the pandemic and on nursing’s essential—and expanding—place in the healthcare system.
The Stories Nurses Tell
Through a story slam, podcast and other concerted efforts, Penn Nursing is striving to turn nurses into storytellers.
Full Circle
Jennifer Toth Nu’15 GNu’19 is helping kids with cancer—just like her.
Nursing Student By Day, Micro-Philanthropist By Night
Sink or Swim founder—and new Nursing grad—Marion Leary GNu’13.
Improving Women’s Health—One Man, Pig, or Cityscape at a Time
Nursing’s Center for Global Women’s Health holds first symposium
The Art of Nursing
Window, Nov|Dec 2011
Partners for Families
Lauren Schenker Wolfson C’98, Mary Joan Murphy Nu’97 GNu’98, and Lisa Landau C’83
“Genius Grant” Nurses Excellence
Nursing School's Sarah Kagan wins MacArthur grant
More Patients + Fewer Nurses = More Deaths
Fewer nurses means more patient deaths
A Starter Kit for Babies
Sandra Samberg Nu’94 GNu’95
Sophisticated Dummies Help Make Smart Nurses
Nurses train on lifelike—but unfeeling—SimMan.
For the third time, will you stop nagging?
Virginia Kurtz Stowe, GNu'68
Rewriting the Final Chapter
As medicine advances, the choices associated with end-of-life care grow more complex — especially when patients or their families clash with doctors, the state, and occasionally each other, over when to treat and when to let go.
“And Still I Rise”
Penn alumna, School of Nursing professor, and "around-the-way girl" Loretta Sweet Jemmott is working to get mothers and sons in Philadelphia's housing projects talking about preventing teen pregnancy and HIV infection.