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Can training nurse practitioner students and medical residents together as part of a patient-aligned care team improve primary care? The San Francisco VA aims to find out.
UCSF and UCLA schools of nursing partner with community clinics to give newly minted NPs an extra year of training.
Their unique skills and perspectives can transform nursing, but men are still reluctant to join the profession. Dean David Vlahov and UCSF students join national efforts to boost men’s numbers.
Anonymous donor provides a $1.5 million gift to create the country’s first diabetes minor at a school of nursing.
UCSF School of Nursing seeks to help service members, veterans and their families through its participation in the "Joining Forces" campaign.
With help from a federal grant, the UCSF School of Nursing PrimeRISK program is teaching family nurse practitioner students how to better serve vulnerable populations that often remind students of themselves.
The UCSF Academic Senate approves conversion of the Doctor of Nursing Science degree to a PhD in Nursing.
To address one of the major contributing factors leading to medical errors, an interprofessional UCSF team develops a web-based curriculum to improve communication among clinicians.
In memory of his wife, Betty (UCSF School of Nursing, 1943), Herbert Gabriel matches a $250,000 gift from UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann and her husband, Nicholas Hellmann, for student scholarships.
Four year campuswide initiative aims to inspire future leaders in the health sciences.
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