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Authors outline risk factors for suicide and strategies to improve recognition of at-risk patients in primary care settings who require referral to mental health providers.

Dr Kelly describes her experiences providing primary care services for medically underserved children in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Share Photos by Tessa Marie Images Nurses may be pandemic heroes, but COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on their mental health and changed the profession—perhaps forever. Our five nursing legends survey the damage from the frontlines. On an early March weekend in 2020, Montgomery County’s first COVID-19 patient walked through the doors of Einstein Medical Center Montgomery complaining of upper respiratory symptoms. His nurse contacted AnnMarie Papa with this question: “My patient is COVID positive. What do I do?” More than a year later, healthcare executives are still struggling. Although va...

Villanova Students Develop Innovative Solutions at First-Annual Health Hackathon Focused on COVID-19 Students from Engineering, Nursing, Business and Liberal Arts & Sciences competed in the three-day virtual event hosted by Villanova University’s  Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship Institute Students from across Villanova University came together for the first annual Health Hackathon, a three-day, virtual event hosted earlier this semester by Villanova’s Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship Institute (ICE). “The goal of the Villanova Health Hackathon was to create oppor...

-The research published in the  Journal of Pediatric Health Care includes recommendations on what health care providers, teachers and others need to know about children born preterm. -Lead author Michelle M. Kelly, PhD, CRNP, CNE, writes that children born preterm are susceptible to impaired school performance, behavioral and mental health issues, heart and lung problems, and motor delays.   Villanova, Pa. – Research findings published online Feb. 23 in the  Journal of Pediatric Health Care show that being born preterm can have long-term consequences, including impaired school perfor...