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Jennifer Viner Featured on Nurse.com

Jennifer Viner, a 2009 master’s graduate and assistant clinical professor in the School’s Department of Community Health Systems, was recently featured as part of Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future: APNs Transforming Care series on Nurse.com.

Jennifer Viner The profile traces Viner’s career trajectory from RN working at the UCSF Medical Center’s Neurointensive Care Unit to nurse practitioner in the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery and assistant professor, where she shares her expertise on the care of patients with brain tumors with student nurses and medical residents. It also highlights her work providing care and nursing education in low-resource areas in Bhutan, Mexico and Haiti.

UCSF Is One of Four Demonstration Sites for Interprofessional Nurse-Midwifery/Obstetric Education Project

UCSF has been selected by the American College of Nurse-Midwives and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists as one of four demonstration sites to implement an interprofessional education curriculum that will team midwifery students with OB-GYN residents. The project is intended to address workforce shortages and improve maternity care in the United States through improved collaborative care models.

Kim Q. Dau (left) and Meg Autry With grant funding from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, faculty from the schools of nursing and medicine will collaboratively develop and implement a curriculum that includes didactic, laboratory simulation and clinical practice experiences. At UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay and Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, teams of graduate midwifery students and OB-GYN residents will care for patients under two different models of collaboration to strengthen all learners’ interprofessional competencies.

Program Director Kim Q. Dau of the School of Nursing’s Certified Nurse-Midwife/Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program is co-leading the project at UCSF with Amy (Meg) Autry, director of the School of Medicine’s OB-GYN residency program. Other participating sites are Baystate Medical Center-Tufts University School of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine with Frontier Nursing University, and the University of Minnesota.

Recent Publications

Patient and Family Involvement in Adult Critical and Intensive Care Settings: A Scoping Review (Kathleen Puntillo), December 2016

Caregiving Immediately After Stroke: A Study of Uncertainty in Caregivers of Older Adults (Eeeseung Byun), December 2016

Schmidt et al. Respond (Joanne Spetz), December 2016

Labor Nurses’ Views of Their Influence on Cesarean Birth (Audrey Lyndon), November 22, 2016

Who Cares for Midlife Women? (Diana Taylor), November 21, 2016

Will the Global HIV Response Fail Gay and Bisexual Men and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men? (Glenn-Milo Santos), November 21, 2016

Psychosocial Predictors of Engagement in Sexual Risk Behavior Among Trans*Female Youth Ages 16 - 24 Years in San Francisco (Glenn-Milo Santos), November 14, 2016

New Roles for Medical Assistants in Innovative Primary Care Practices (Susan Chapman), November 10, 2016

Acceptability of Naloxone Co-Prescription Among Primary Care Providers Treating Patients on Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Pain (Glenn-Milo Santos), November 4, 2016

Interprofessional Education in the Clinical Setting: A Qualitative Look at the Preceptor’s Perspective in Training Advanced Practice Nursing Students (Angel Chen, Susan Kools), November 2016

Polymorphisms in Cytokine Genes Are Associated with Higher Levels of Fatigue and Lower Levels of Energy in Women After Breast Cancer Surgery (Kord Kober, Steve Paul, Bruce Cooper, Christine Miaskowski), November 2016

High Levels of Geriatric Palliative Care Needs in Hip Fracture Patients Before the Hip Fracture (Margaret L. Wallhagen), October 2016

Characteristics Associated with Inter-Individual Differences in the Trajectories of Self-Reported Attentional Function in Oncology Outpatients Receiving Chemotherapy (Heather Leutwyler, Christine Miaskowski, Bruce Cooper), October 20, 2016

Each year, UC San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing is ranked among the top graduate schools in the nation.

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