Patient Care
As UCSF Medical Center dramatically cut readmission rates for heart failure patients, nurses led the way.
Rob Slaughter thought he understood nursing science. Then he was diagnosed with a life-threatening melanoma, and abstract concepts assumed flesh-and-blood meaning.
Can collaboration among families and clinical staff in the intensive care nursery ease infant and parental distress – and help prevent a lifetime of health challenges?
Susan Peloquin helps create UCSF’s pioneering neonatal intensive care unit to head off the neurological complications that are the leading cause of cognitive impairment and cerebral palsy in the United States.
Patient safety expert Mary Blegen describes ways for nursing leaders to maximize their impact.
Nurse scientists translate research into action at patients' bedsides.
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January 2018
The UC San Francisco School of Nursing and the San Francisco VA Health Care System have launched innovative nurse practitioner residencies that are contributing to a growing, nationwide interest in such programs.
April 2017
A collaboration between the UCSF School of Nursing and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco to validate an assessment tool may help nurses better predict which children are at risk for falling while in the hospital.
October 2016
A series of symposia given by UC San Francisco School of Nursing’s Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program aims to help future clinicians provide more understanding, compassionate care to people with severe mental illness.
August 2019
One of the first studies in the United States on NPs’ opioid prescribing habits points to gaps in the research and in NP education.
