Patient Care
UCSF Nursing students are applying their skills and knowledge to assist those in need, including some nearly half a world away.
UCSF School of Nursing faculty member Carolina Noya pioneers a version of shared medical appointments for patients with diabetes. Its initial successes are drawing interest from rural communities in California and in Mexico.
California has a significant shortage of primary care providers. Nurse practitioners can help plug the gap, but they must first overcome some significant hurdles.
Inspired by what she heard at the 2016 Thelma Shobe Endowed Lectureships in Ethics and Spirituality at UC San Francisco School of Nursing, a pediatric intensivist writes of how bioethics can help clinicians of all kinds cope with the moral distress associated with having to make high-stakes decisions with and for their patients.
Alarm safety is a significant problem with no easy solutions. UCSF Medical Center and UCSF San Francisco School of Nursing are approaching it as a team effort.
UCSF’s Office of Population Health and Accountable Care is leading a series of experiments to help UCSF Health adapt to a period of truly disruptive health care change.
Nonprescribing nurses have largely been invisible in the discussion about the effects of industry marketing to clinicians. A new study makes the case for more scrutiny.
Epidemiologist Anne Lown combines epidemiology and personal experience to advocate for better psychosocial care for pediatric cancer patients and survivors.
Pediatric nurse practitioner Barbara Bratton teams with surgeon Lan Vu and an interdisciplinary team to help children born with rare congenital anomalies navigate a lifetime of health challenges.
Changes in the health care environment are expanding roles for nurse practitioners in both the inpatient and outpatient settings while adding new challenges to schools trying to meet demand for a highly skilled workforce.
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