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Penn Nursing PennNursing: admissions@nursing.upenn.edu, 215-898-4271 The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing is one of the world’s leading schools of nursing.

For the seventh year in a row, it is ranked the #1 nursing school in the world by QS University. In a first for any undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program in the country, our BSN program is ranked # 1 in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings. Penn Nursing is also consistently ranked highly in the U.S. News & World Report annual list of best graduate schools and is ranked as one of the top schools of nursing in funding from the National Institutes of Health. Penn Nursing prepares nurse scientists and nurse leaders to meet the health needs of a global society through innovation in research, education, and practice.

Join us for a virtual DNP Alumni & Current Student Panel on Monday, December 8th at 7PM EST! This is your chance to gain...
12/05/2025

Join us for a virtual DNP Alumni & Current Student Panel on Monday, December 8th at 7PM EST!

This is your chance to gain real world insights directly from graduates and current students of our DNP Executive Leadership & Systems Leadership (formerly Post-Master's) programs. They will share their perspectives on their academic journeys and professional careers.

Register here:

12/03/2025

Abigail Wilpers, Ph.D., WHNP-BC is transforming how families navigate serious fetal and newborn diagnoses. Her research exposes the barriers that keep many parents from receiving timely prenatal detection and the information they need to make informed decisions.

In this episode of Penn Nursing’s Nurse-Led. Evidence-Driven. Future Focused series, Abigail shows how nurse-led research can directly shape smarter policy and better support for families.

Watch her video to see why early detection matters and how evidence can drive meaningful change. https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/science-videos/

Share your unique story at the 2026 Penn Nursing Story Slam! This year's theme, "Human Touch in a Digital World," explor...
12/02/2025

Share your unique story at the 2026 Penn Nursing Story Slam!

This year's theme, "Human Touch in a Digital World," explores how technology and empathy intersect in nursing. Don’t miss the chance to illuminate powerful moments where compassion meets innovation. Submit your story by December 5, 2025 and join us virtually on February 25, 2026!

Learn more: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/news-events/annual-events/nursing-story-slam/

Nursing Is a Profession — and Essential to America’s Health:Penn Nursing joins Professors Connie M. Ulrich, Mary Naylor,...
11/28/2025

Nursing Is a Profession — and Essential to America’s Health:

Penn Nursing joins Professors Connie M. Ulrich, Mary Naylor, and Martha A.Q. Curley in expressing deep concern over the U.S. Department of Education’s proposal to remove advanced practice nursing degrees from its list of professional programs, which would limit financial aid for graduate nursing students.

At a time of severe workforce shortages, rising chronic illness, and widening care deserts, this proposal would make it harder for nurses to pursue advanced training in primary care, acute care, pediatrics, oncology, gerontology, anesthesia, and more.

Advanced practice nurses deliver vital, evidence-based care, often serving as the only clinicians in rural and underserved communities. Restricting access to graduate education will only deepen existing gaps in health care, the scientists said in a recent article in Stat 10.

What do you hold onto when every step forward meets another setback? As Madeline Brunson rushed through medical testing ...
11/26/2025

What do you hold onto when every step forward meets another setback? As Madeline Brunson rushed through medical testing and tried to balance school, travel, and hope, she learned her recipient was suddenly too sick to receive the transplant. While she waited and tried to enjoy a brief break, the uncertainty and guilt were never far away.

Then came the message she had been hoping for: her recipient had recovered enough to move forward. Even with a narrow window before an international trip and the need to redo every exam, Madeline stayed committed to the promise she made to herself to do everything in her power to help save a life.

Read Part 3 of her story: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/news/3301-a-helping-hand-or-bone-

11/26/2025

Today's Thanksgiving spotlight features Navjot Hira, a CRNA student whose journey at Penn Nursing helped her realize that limits are often imagined and inspiration is something practiced daily. Her story is a powerful reminder of what determination and community can make possible.

The Center for Women’s Global Health, the Penn Nursing Office of School and Community Engagement, and Penn Medicine invi...
11/20/2025

The Center for Women’s Global Health, the Penn Nursing Office of School and Community Engagement, and Penn Medicine invite you to a Film Screening and Panel Discussion of American Delivery on Thursday, December 4th, 2025. American Delivery is a powerful new documentary that shines a light on the maternal health crisis—and the women, nurses, and hospital leaders fighting to prevent unnecessary deaths and suffering.
Learn more about the film: https://www.americandelivery.film/
RSVP: https://upenn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0Bd9vN0axdlhYy2

In a Newsweek interview, Dean Antonia Villarruel championed the need for nursing to retain its designation as a professi...
11/20/2025

In a Newsweek interview, Dean Antonia Villarruel championed the need for nursing to retain its designation as a professional degree, asserting that accessible, high-quality nursing education is vital to sustaining a strong health care system that relies on nurses' scientific expertise, skill, and compassion.

"In today's health and health care landscape, nurses are needed everywhere; not only because of their holistic perspectives on health, but because of their deep science-based knowledge and ability to apply to evidence based solutions—to life and death situations—and everything in between.

Not including nursing as a professional degree is yet another barrier to nursing education. Restricting access to guaranteed federal loans will severely limit the number of highly educated providers to provide care in this complex environment. This impacts nurse preparation at every level—and especially graduate nursing education. Not including nursing as a professional degree is more than an affront to the nation's most trusted profession—it is serious blow to the health of our nation," stated Dean Antonia Villarruel

https://www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-professional-degree-trump-admin-11079650

11/19/2025

This Thanksgiving season, we're spotlighting Marcelle Dellomo, a Master of Professional Nursing (MPN) student and recipient of the Conway Scholarship and the Penn Nursing MPN Merit Award Scholarship.

We're grateful to our donors for supporting students like Marcella and helping them move one step closer to caring for the communities they're passionate about. Happy Thanksgiving from Penn Nursing.

11/19/2025

In the latest installment of the Nurse-Led. Evidence-Driven. Future Focused. series, Catherine C. McDonald, PhD, RN, FAAN, Endowed Chair, the Nightingale Professor in Honor of Nursing Veterans, highlights a crucial gap in adolescent concussion care.

We have well-established guidance for returning to school, exercise, and sports, yet there are no guidelines for one of the most complicated tasks teens take on: driving. Her team’s work uses driving simulators, real-world app-based data, and symptom tracking to better understand how mild traumatic brain injury affects teens who are still developing their driving skills.

Dr. McDonald's message is a powerful reminder of the distinct perspective nurses bring to research, patient care, and public health. Federal investment in injury prevention makes studies like this possible and moves us closer to safer outcomes for teens and families.

Watch the full video, and more from the Nurse-Led. Evidence-Driven. Future Focused. series at our website: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/science-videos/

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Penn Nursing’s students become health care leaders, prepared and dedicated to shaping the art and science of nursing and gain the experience and exposure only an Ivy League education can provide. Whether you are graduating from high school, looking to change careers, or pursuing an advanced nursing degree, with extensive options for joint degree programs, minors, and a wide variety of graduate programs, a Penn Nursing degree – from the BSN to the PhD – provides variety, flexibility, and opportunity. A nationally respected faculty -- including world-renowned researchers who collectively rank near the top of all schools of nursing receiving federal funding -- student involvement in cutting-edge research, the latest advances in virtual learning, and clinical experiences in the nation's top hospitals combine to create an educational atmosphere like no other. Would you like to manage a hospital, provide patient care, conduct vital research, or shape public policy? At Penn Nursing, we’re innovating for life and living. Join us! Penn Nursing Admissions: 215-898-4271 admissions@nursing.upenn.edu