The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (more commonly referred to as Penn Nursing) is an undergraduate and graduate institution at the

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, located in

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. According to U.S. News & World Report, the School of Nursing at Penn is among the top-ranked undergraduate and graduate nursing schools in the United States. The School of Nursing receives approximately $480 million in funding from the

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, making it among the most highly funded nursing schools in the country.

Facilities

Penn Nursing's main building, Claire M. Fagin Hall, is located south of the center of campus. Within a block of Fagin Hall are the

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, the

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, and buildings of the

Perelman School of Medicine The Perelman School of Medicine, commonly known as Penn Med, is the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1765, the Perelman School of Medicine is the oldest medi ...

. The Tri-Nursing Education Building (or Tri-NEB), originally built in 1972, was later named for Claire M. Fagin, a former dean of Penn Nursing who later served as Interim President of the university. The building originally housed the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing which was a three-year diploma in nursing. Students there also attended classes at UPenn for chemistry, anatomy and physiology, and two electives of their choice. The school was founded in 1886 and graduated its last class in 1978. When Penn accepted responsibility for HUP in 1973, HUP's school of nursing was absorbed into Penn Nursing. In February 2022, Leonard Lauder of The Estée Lauder Companies, donated $125 million to establish a new tuition-free nurse practitioner program.

Academics

Degree programs

At the undergraduate level, the School of Nursing offers traditional and accelerated

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programs. From October 2014 through September 2015, the NCLEX first-time test-takers pass rate was 93.04%. While

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and

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also have nursing programs, Penn is the only Ivy League institution to offer a baccalaureate nursing program. Penn Nursing has 15 masters programs, including nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, as well as a doctoral certified registered nurse anesthetist program. The majority of Penn Nursing's graduate programs are top-ranked in their specialty. Penn Nursing also offers a PhD program. Students can also earn joint degrees from the School of Nursing and other schools in the University of Pennsylvania. Options include the Nursing and Health Care Management program with the Wharton School, leading to a BSN and a Bachelor of Science in economics. There are also dual-degree and joint degree options for nursing students of different degree levels and in different schools in the university.

Study abroad

Nursing students have the option to apply to various study abroad programs during the spring or fall semesters or during one of the two summer sessions of Penn's academic calendar. Sites include Australia, England, Botswana, Hong Kong, Spain, and Thailand.

Notable people

Faculty

Linda Aiken Linda H. Aiken, (born July 29, 1943) is an American nurse and researcher who is currently the Director for the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. She also is th ...

, health services researcher *

Claire Fagin Claire Mintzer Fagin FAAN (born November 25, 1926) is an American nurse, educator, academic, and consultant. She has a bachelor's degree in science from Wagner College, a master's in nursing from Columbia University and a Ph.D from New York Uni ...

, Dean Emerita, first woman to serve as interim president of an

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university *

Sarah H. Kagan Sarah Hope Kagan, PhD, RN, FAAN, is an American gerontological nurse, and Lucy Walker Honorary Term Professor of Gerontological Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. Life Professor Kagan teaches students across the baccalaureate, masters and ...

, gerontological nurse and

MacArthur fellow The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

Alumni

Ruth Lubic Ruth Watson Lubic, CNM, EdD, FAAN, FACNM, (born January 18, 1927) is an American nurse-midwife and applied anthropologist who pioneered the role of nurse-midwives as primary care providers for women, particularly in maternity care. Lubic is con ...

, nurse midwife and

Student

* Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, inventor of uNight Light, "a wearable light-emitting diode, or LED, that allows nurses to illuminate their work space without interrupting a patient’s sleep."

Research centers

* Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing * Center for Global Women's Health * Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research * NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health

References

External links

* {{Authority control Educational institutions established in 1935 University of Pennsylvania schools Nursing schools in Pennsylvania 1935 establishments in Pennsylvania