Blog Topic: Nursing

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  Magical moments when Penn holds two hospital weddings in one week

  August 29, 2024

  A hospital might not seem like an ideal wedding venue. But for two patients at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, nurses and staff helped dreams come true by facilitating two weddings in the same week.

  Human Interest Nursing
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  The road to recovery begins at home

  August 27, 2024

  Penn Medicine at Home’s SNF at Home pilot program offers a seamless transition from the hospital to home, and the extra support patients may need to recover in familiar surroundings.

  Nursing Surgery
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  The key to nursing across three continents? Empathy

  July 23, 2024

  Nursing is more than giving medication and learning all the new technology, said nurse Abheena Jacob, whose career spans more than 18 years and three continents. “It’s feeling empathy for patients.”

  Human Interest Nursing
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  It’s all in the family for these bone marrow transplant nurses

  May 07, 2024

  Penn Medicine’s bone marrow transplant team already considers itself a family, but having three related nurses in its ranks—often treating the same people at different phases of care—makes them that much stronger.

  Human Interest Nursing
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  Doubly dedicated: Nurse wins IRONMAN World Championship

  January 23, 2024

  Ava Warfel, a 23-year-old LG Health employee, recently won her age group (age 18-24) IRONMAN World Championships in Kona, Hawai’i. Ava says her supportive colleagues have helped her accomplish her health care and athletic goals.

  General Interest Human Interest Nursing
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  Care in one call: Spotlighting primary care triage nurses

  December 07, 2023

  Learn how a triage nurse program efficiently focuses on getting sick patients to the next step in their care.

  Patient Care Nursing
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  How Penn Brings Early-Career Nurses to Home Health Care

  September 12, 2023

  With more care being shifted to the home setting, Penn Medicine At Home established a new program to train the nurses who hit the road.

  Nursing Education
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  New Program Supports Growth of Diverse Nursing Leaders

  December 06, 2022

  The Diversity Nurse Leader Fellowship Program will provide nurses who are committed to promoting diversity — either as a member of a group that is underrepresented in nursing or as an ally — with the skills to take on leadership roles.

  Nursing Diversity
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  Clinical Research Nurses: Making Research Happen

  November 01, 2022

  Clinical research nurses may seem like just another nurse on the care team but they play pivotal roles in the care of participants in clinical trials.

  Nursing Clinical Trials
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  How Acts of Selflessness Led a Nurse to Finding His Career Calling

  May 12, 2022

  Jake Purnell, RN, is often known by fellow staff members and patients as someone who is caring with his patients and attentive with his work. But many do not even know the true extent of his caring nature — Purnell has donated life-saving bone marrow not once, but twice, which is extremely rare.

  Nursing Transplant