Blog Topic: Nursing

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  A Penn Nurse Plays an Integral Role in Temporary COVID-19 Hospital

  April 15, 2021

  For as long as he can remember, Kerwin Barden has put the needs of others ahead of his own. That’s how he explains his decision to enlist, at 19 years old, in the New Jersey Air National Guard as a medic 24 years ago.

  COVID-19 Nursing
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  Finding the Evidence

  October 01, 2019

  As frontline caregivers interacting closely with patients and families, nurses are uniquely positioned to ask questions that might improve processes or lead to even better care.

  Health Care Quality and Safety Nursing
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  Good Medicine: One Nurse's Path to Hope and Healing

  August 22, 2019

  By the time she started nursing school at age 50, Jennifer Evanson had already worked as a lawyer, taken a hiatus to stay home with her children, and endured the sudden death of her husband, before she experienced an epiphany while volunteering at a homeless shelter.

  Nursing General Interest Cancer
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  Through Her Eyes: Bringing History to Life at the Philadelphia Science Festival

  April 23, 2019

  To say that Philadelphia was a busy place to be in the summer of 1776 would be an understatement. But, there’s another part of this story that many likely haven’t heard, and that’s the story of Pennsylvania Hospital nurse Lucy Finley.

  Human Interest Nursing
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  Unity in Community

  May 19, 2017

  After a winter that felt like it could last forever, spring is in full swing. For some, spring means flowers (and sometimes allergies), baseball, and rain showers, but for Penn Medicine, it’s one of the busiest seasons for health fairs, 5K fundraisers, and other community events. One of those 5K fundraisers held earlier this month was the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s inaugural “Nurses Week” 5K.

  Nursing Community
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  From the Rain, There Comes a Rainbow

  May 10, 2017

  It rained hard on Thursday, March 10, 2011. So hard that track practice at Saucon Valley High School was cancelled, leaving sophomore Amanda Illingworth a bit stranded and looking for a ride home. Little did she know the ride she accepted would change the course of the rest of her life.

  Nursing Trauma Emergency Medicine
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  Nathan Francis Mossell, Penn Medicine's First Black Graduate

  February 06, 2017

  Nathan Francis Mossell’s is a figure which looms large in Philadelphia medical history, not just for the barriers he broke but for those he helped others break throughout his life—and the tale of his rise to prominence in the field started right here in the fall of 1879.

  Diversity Education Nursing
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  CSI: Penn Medicine?

  November 14, 2016

  Rhonda Browning doesn’t play a forensics expert on TV, but she is training to be one in real life. With the proliferation of crime dramas like Law & Order SVU, NCIS, and the CSI franchise, forensics has become a big topic – people are interested in it, self-declared Sherlocks around...

  Nursing Patient Care Trauma

• Costume Halloween Party at the ICN! (Slideshow)

  October 31, 2016

  Heroic firefighters, wickedly adorable witches and even a very hungry caterpillar made appearances at HUP’s Intensive Care Nursery on Friday. Penn’s littlest patients donned costumes of all sorts to celebrate their first Halloween with a family party. As the babies showed off their costumes, family members shared pizza, snacks and...

  Nursing
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  Stop the Bleed

  September 12, 2016

  Penn Medicine's Patrick K. Kim, MD, Trauma Program Director for the Penn Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care & Emergency Surgery, answers questions from a group of Philadelphia nurses on wound care and tourniquet application. While students were picking out their outfits and sharpening pencils, and teachers were preparing their...

  Community Education Nursing Penn CAREs Trauma