Patient Care
As UCSF Medical Center dramatically cut readmission rates for heart failure patients, nurses led the way.
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.
Rob Slaughter thought he understood nursing science. Then he was diagnosed with a life-threatening melanoma, and abstract concepts assumed flesh-and-blood meaning.
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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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.
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.
March 2017
As treatment advances transform HIV into a chronic illness, primary care providers must be prepared to care for the more than 1.2 million people living with HIV in the United States. A UCSF School of Nursing effort helps lead the way in addressing this challenge.
September 2016
In the first in a series of posts on bioethical issues in health care, Marsha Michie of the UCSF Bioethics team, explores some of the concerns raised by the emergence of noninvasive prenatal testing.
