‘Ville’s Dr. Monn Receives Nurse Practitioner Award

For her work as a role model for nurse practitioners and her integrity, professionalism, kindness and compassion, associate professor Dr. Jenny Monn in the Wehrheim School of Nursing has received the honorable Sheila Gealey Award. The award recognizes her achievements for actively protecting and enhancing the role of a nurse practitioner. She received the award at the Pennsylvania Coalition of Nurse Practitioners NCP 2024 Annual Educational Conference on Nov. 15.  

 “I am thrilled to see Dr. Monn’s continued advocacy for nurse practitioners recognized by the PA Coalition of Nurse Practitioners,” says Dr. Kelly Kuhns, chair of the Wehrheim School of Nursing. “For more than 10 years, Dr. Monn has been active at the local and state level, working to achieve full practice authority for nurse practitioners in Pennsylvania.  Our students have been privileged to have a faculty member with her dedication and passion for her profession.” 

 The award was established in 2012 to honor Sheila Gealey, the first president and long-time leader of the Pennsylvania Coalition of Nurse Practitioners.  

 “To think that I could be considered in the same “bucket” as Sheila is overwhelming,” says Monn. “As I said to her  ‘I’m not certain I could ever fill your shoes.’” 

 Monn has been a member of the PCNP Executive Board since 2015 and has held various roles working alongside Sheila Gealey.  She chairs the PCNP Research Committee, serves on the Communications and Conference Committees and has co-chaired the annual Student Symposium. Monn also attends the annual conference to present her research as a professor and serve as a role model for other nurse practitioners.

Monn continues to show her dedication by conducting research on sexual risk-taking behaviors among college students and playing an active role in the development of Breast-A-Ville. 

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