Madlyn Abramson Nursing Research Fellowship
Nurses selected to participate in the Madlyn Abramson Nursing Research Fellowship receive mentorship and guidance in the conduct of original research. This fellowship honors the life and legacy of Madlyn Abramson, whose dedication to patient-centered approaches to research have made an extraordinary impact on Penn Medicine’s ability to care for patients with cancer with cutting-edge therapies and comprehensive support.
Practicum in Evidence Synthesis
The Practicum in Evidence Synthesis is a partnership between the Abramson Family Center for Nursing Excellence and the Penn Medicine Center for Evidence-based Practice (CEP). The mission of CEP is to provide and interpret clinical evidence so physicians, nurses, and administrators can improve the quality, safety, and value of care they deliver. Nurses participate in a structured seminar-style practicum where they conduct evidence reviews on various topics of interest. Nurses learn the fundamentals of comprehensive literature procurement and critical appraisal of the evidence and develop as leaders in evidence-based practice locally and beyond. Outcomes of this practicum include scholarly dissemination, new evidence-based nurse-driven practice protocols, evidence-based programming, and original research studies. In addition, the completed evidence reviews are included among CEPs influential portfolio identifying the nurses as lead analysts.
Nurse Leader Ethics Fellowship
The Nurse Leader Ethics Fellowship (NLEF) provides nurse leaders with the opportunity to build leadership, conflict resolution and communication skills; learn core competencies of clinical ethics; handle common value-laden clinical issues; and reflect on their role in the clinical environment. Over the course of one year, fellows participate in monthly seminars, a bioethics mediation intensive and a course in the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy program. Upon completion, fellows will be stronger leaders and embedded, local ethics experts that impact ethical practice, provide ethics support and develop ethical competence among their staff.
The 2022 inaugural cohort consists of 11 nurse managers, assistant nurse managers, and clinical nurse specialists.
Seminar topics include nursing leadership, family communication, the history of nursing ethics, patient decision-making capacity, informed consent, surrogate decision-making, and patient and family requests for potentially inappropriate care. Also included are professionalism, organ transplantation, reproductive ethics, pandemic ethics, and moral distress.
Diversity Nurse Leadership Fellowship
The Diversity Nurse Leader Fellowship (DNLF) supports the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in its ongoing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace and support the growth, development and advancement of nurses who may not otherwise pursue leadership opportunities. The 12-month developmental program includes monthly didactic sessions, shadowing experiences, reflective writing and self-assessments.
The 2023 inaugural cohort consists of six clinical nurses.
Writing Lab
HUP Nurses are engaged in the scholarly dissemination of their research, quality, educational, and practice initiatives through peer-reviewed publication and presentation at professional conferences. The Writing Lab provides guidance and support to individual nurses and teams across all stages of the writing process for scholarly publication and presentation.
Contact the Abramson Family Center for Nursing Excellence at HUP.CenterforNursingExcellence@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
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