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A unique clinic in Haiti that treats children with chronic disease is forging deeper connections with UCSF to expand capacity and improve pediatric health.
Recent graduate Sonia Lai uses her art talents to deepen understanding of clinician burnout.
In the months after the devastating North Coast fires, licensed providers from UCSF staffed a volunteer clinic to deliver ongoing crisis counseling for Sonoma residents. The effort could lead to a PMHNP faculty practice aimed at addressing the area’s growing mental health needs.
Faculty and students from the School of Nursing have a long history of community partnerships aimed at addressing health inequities. UCSF’s $5 billion campaign will significantly boost the School’s ongoing efforts.
Alumni and pediatric nurse practitioners Claire Parker and Elizabeth Colglazier organize a camp dedicated solely to kids with pulmonary hypertension.
A master’s degree student from the UCSF School of Nursing Diabetes Minor has a transformative experience as a counselor at a Navajo Area Indian Health Service camp for kids.
A School of Nursing program aims to reduce young children’s exposure to pesticides.
As the number of older adults in the United States continues to grow, California’s only free, objective and comprehensive guide to long-term care services could disappear unless it can find a new funding source.
Experts now believe that as many as half of all cancers can be prevented. That is spurring a growing number of prevention initiatives, with nurses and nurse scientists front and center.
Global Health Nursing Fellow Sarah Meyer discusses the challenges of responding to a mass casualty incident in a hospital in rural Haiti.
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