Current Initiatives
Community Health Needs Assessment Alignment
The college is prioritizing the health of our community by strategically
focusing our teaching, research, and service on the medical needs identied
by the community through surveys conducted at local medical facilities.
The Tressa Nese and Helen Diskevich
Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (CGNE)
is a community of nurse educators, clinicians, and researchers whose
leadership is actively improving health care for older adults in America.
MINDSTRONG/MINDBODYSTRONG is a cognitive behavioral
skills building (CBSB) program that provides a theory-based approach to
improve mental health, healthy lifestyle beliefs and behaviors, and job
satisfaction in clinicians.
Nursing Research Network
The college has received funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes
Research Institute to develop networks for community-based nursing
research throughout Pennsylvania.
Person-Centered Care Collaboration is a program that was
established by the college and the Polisher Research Institute in North
Wales, Pennsylvania. The program will expand on the college’s current focus
on research in aging and person-centered care — a model of elder care that
seeks to improve quality of life by focusing on the patient’s own lifestyle
preferences.
THON Medication Administration
Under the supervision of nursing faculty, BSN students enrolled in NURS
306 (Nursing Care of Children and Adolescents) administer medications for
the dancers in the IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON) as part of their
required clinical hours.
Age-Friendly Care, PA is a collaborative for age- and dementia–
friendly care that is a dedicated group of diverse professionals from different
backgrounds working together to improve the lives of older adults in
Pennsylvania, with special attention to older adults living in rural parts of our
state.
Two-Step Delirium Identication Tool
Supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging, a four-year
interprofessional project, “Researching Efcient Approaches to Delirium
Identication,” aims to improve the care of older adults by developing and
testing a two-step bedside tool to detect delirium in hospitalized adults age
70 and older.
Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Telehealth
(SAFE-T) Center
This project uses telehealth technology to enhance access to sexual assault
forensic exams in underserved populations. Through live-examination
videoconferencing with high-resolution image display, the SAFE-T Center
improves the quality of services afforded to victims of assault in rural
hospitals across Pennsylvania.
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Our Students
By The Numbers
93%93%
NCLEX PASS RATE
FIRST-TIME TEST TAKERS (2021)
3.56-3.913.56-3.91
HIGH SCHOOL GPA (UNWEIGHTED 4.0 SCALE)
MIDDLE 50% GPA UNIVERSITY PARK PENN STATE
SUMMER/FALL 2021
3.07-3.603.07-3.60
HIGH SCHOOL GPA (UNWEIGHTED 4.0 SCALE)
MIDDLE 50% GPA OTHER CAMPUSES PENN STATE
SUMMER/FALL 2021
1280-14501280-1450
MIDDLE 50% SAT STATISTICS UNIVERSITY PARK
EVIDENCE-BASED READING AND WRITING +
MATH (1600 SCALE) PENN STATE SUMMER/FALL
2021 ADMISSIONS
1090-1300
MIDDLE 50% SAT STATISTICS OTHER
CAMPUSES EVIDENCE-BASED READING AND
WRITING + MATH (1600 SCALE)
PENN STATE SUMMER/FALL 2021 ADMISSIONS
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