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Interim Dean Sandra Weiss announces Chair appointment
Dr. Carol Dawson-Rose will become the official Chair of the Department of Community Health Systems (CHS) in the School of Nursing. As most of you know, Carol has been Interim Chair of CHS during this last year. The search committee and those who provided input to the search process indicated their strong support for her continuation in the role of Chair.
Remy Paille (left) and Laurensia Widyastami (photo by Elisabeth Fall)
Sept. 14, 2017
Geriatric Surgical Health Coaching Teaches the Value of Team-Based Care
By Remy Paille and Laurensia Widyastami
Science of Caring
Two graduates of the UCSF School of Nursing Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program found that serving as geriatric surgical health coaches during their master’s degree program was an outstanding learning experience.
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Recruiting for new MEPN faculty—adult medical-surgical-geriatrics
The School is recruiting for faculty to teach medical-surgical-geriatric nursing curriculum, and to be content expert in this academic year.The faculty members are to be appointed in the Assistant/Associate Health Sciences Clinical Professor series, and join the Department of Physiological Nursing as colleagues in all academic roles expected of that series.
Barbara Koenig (photos by Elisabeth Fall)
Sept. 4, 2017
Making Sense of California’s End of Life Option Act
By Andrew Schwartz
Science of Caring
Passage and implementation of California’s End of Life Option Act has raised difficult questions for patients, families, clinicians, health systems and others. UCSF’s Barbara Koenig heads a project aiming to define the most critical challenges and describe how people and systems are best addressing them.
UCSF School of Nursing master’s degree student Jenny Mendez Butler volunteered this summer at the Adolescent Wellness Camp in Mancos, Colorado.
Sept. 4, 2017
Navajo Area IHS Camp Delivers Powerful Learning
By Jenny Mendez Butler
Science of Caring
A master’s degree student from the UCSF School of Nursing Diabetes Minor has a transformative experience as a counselor at a Navajo Area Indian Health Service camp for kids.
Catherine Waters, PdD
Two new interim academic leadership appointments announced
Catherine Waters, PdD, will serve as our Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (ADAA) during the coming year. Waters is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Systems as well as the Sally Bates Endowed Chair in Community Nursing and Health Disparities
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Yoga for Symptom Relief in Homebound Population

Doranne Donesky was lead author on an article published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (Donesky, DorAnne; Selman, Lucy; McDermott, Kelly; Citron, Tracie; and Howie…

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Dawson-Rose and Park Appointed to SFBayCRN

UC San Francisco (UCSF)’s primary care practice-based research network—the San Francisco Bay Area Collaborative Research Network (SFBayCRN) welcomed two, new faculty from the School of Nursing to their Steering…