Leadership in Action: Alumni, Faculty, Staff and Student Milestones

Nursing Leaders

December 1, 2016

By Diana Austin

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.