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The UCSF School of Nursing will have two significant leadership changes as of July 1, 2017.

Associate Dean Lynda Jacobsen will retire after 32 years of superb service to the University. Since joining UCSF in…

January 18, 2017
By Efrat Lelkes
Science of Caring
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.
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Rosafel Adriano-Nogra, HS assistant clinical professor
Academic focus: binge drinking behavior and sexual violence among college students
In her own time: traveling and exploring…

For the fifteenth year in a row, nurses have rated highest for honesty and ethics in Gallup's annual poll about perceptions of various professions. Read the full report here.

Victoria Flores shares her story as she progresses from our Master’s program to our Doctoral program, highlighting challenges, new experiences, and directions along the way—find out what it’s like to be a part of…

Dec. 13, 2016
By Victoria Flores
Science of Caring
Victoria Flores’ journey from a small town in Texas to a doctoral program at UC San Francisco School of Nursing has been challenging. This introductory piece in a planned series sets the stage.
Dec. 1, 2016
By Andrew Schwartz
Science of Caring
Experts now believe that as many as half of all cancers can be prevented. That is spurring a growing number of prevention initiatives, with nurses and nurse scientists front and center.