Progress and Partnership

Linda Aiken - Healing Hospitals: Improving Patient Outcomes
World-renowned authority on best practices to improve healthcare outcomes, her work provides direction for policy makers worldwide and attracts research focus to nursing. Dr. Aiken, Fagin Research Award Lecture winner, will speak on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 3:30pm with reception following.

Penn Nursing Student Wins Evercare Scholarship
Erin Lacey, RN, a student in the Adult Health-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner program received $20,000 scholarship from Evercare for her study of ways to improve healthcare in long-term-care settings.

Alumni Connections

Penn Nursing Wants You
Share your voice. Select those who will help develop alumni outreach and programs for you and your classmates. Vote for your Alumni Board representatives today.

Did You Know?
An important benefit for all Penn Nursing Alumni is a 15% discount for continuing education courses offered at the School. Check out the courses offered this spring.

Giving to Penn Nursing

Our Students. Our Future. Our Impact.
Do more than you ever thought possible. Your gift to Penn Nursing Annual Giving makes an impact for students and faculty through scholarships, technology enhancements, and support of faculty teaching innovations.

This year, the Alumni Board Giving Committee has agreed to double their gift to Annual Giving as their part in the Where Science Leads campaign. They ask you to consider the same or to give for the first time.

We've reached $195,000 of our $300,000 goal, with 3 1/2 months to go. If you've given, we thank you. If you haven't, there's still time to make a difference for Penn Nursing students this year!

School of Nursing Happenings

Global Reflection Week - March 26-28th
Join us for dynamic programs and our Inaugural Global Photo Exhibition.

» Changes in Humanitarian Crises Around the World and
    the Role of the Nurse - March 26th
    Richard Garfield, DrPH, RN, Columbia University School of Nursing

» What Penn Nursing Has Done, Is Doing, & Should Do
    for Women's Health Globally - March 28th
    · Past: Dr. Pat D'Antonio, PhD, FAAN, RN
    · Present: Loretta Sweet Jemmott, PhD, FAAN, RN
    · Future: William McCool, PhD, CNM, RN

Kickoff Penn Nursing Alumni Weekend with Nursing Health Care Administration Alumni - May 10th
Retirement reception: Celebrating former Nursing Administration program director & faculty advisor, Dr. Cynthia Scalzi.
Cocktails and Dinner feature: "Quantum Nursing Leadership: Lessons from A Queen, A Sportsman, and Five Nursing Legends", Maryann F. Fralic, RN, DrPH, FAAN Professor, Director, Corporate & Foundation Relations, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.

Alumni Weekend - Penn Nursing Leading the Way - May 12th
Changing Policy, Changing Practice - Penn Nursing alumni and faculty experts speak on nursing science solutions to the healthcare crisis in local, national, and global communities.

· Eileen Sullivan-Marx, HUP'72, Nu'76, GR'95, HOM'01, PhD, CRNP,
   FAAN, RN, Shearer Term Associate Professor for Healthy
  Community Practices, and Associate Dean for Practice and
  Community Affairs
· Lillee Gelinas, GNu'79, RN, MSN, Vice President & Chief
  Nursing Officer, Voluntary Hospitals of America, Inc.
· Sean P. Clarke, GNC'99, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, Class of 1965
  25th Reunion Term Assistant Professor of Nursing
· Moderator: Jane H. Barnsteiner, Nu'70 GNu'73, PhD, FAAN,
  Professor of Pediatric Nursing

Offering 1 contact hour of continuing education credit. Make your plans now
to join us!

Continuing Education

Last Call to Register for Patient Safety Conference
4th Annual National Patient Safety Conference: Surveillance Through
Nursing's Eyes, March 29 - March 30, 2007

Still to Come...
The Patient's View: How to Respond to a Devastating Diagnosis
April 24, 2007 - 4:00pm

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