Leadership in Action: Alumni, Faculty, Staff and Student Milestones
Monica McLemore Wins Margretta Madden Styles Award
Monica McLemore Monica McLemore, assistant professor of Family Health Care Nursing, has won the 2017 Margretta Madden Styles Award, given by the Alpha Eta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, the Honor Society of Nursing.
The Alpha Eta Chapter created the award in 1987 in honor of Styles, a former dean of the UC San Francisco School of Nursing, to recognize excellence in clinical nursing practice, teaching, research or administration.
McLemore, a member of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health and associate director for Community-Engaged Research at the UCSF Preterm Birth Initiative, was honored for her contributions and research into women’s sexual and reproductive health and reproductive justice.
Alice Wong on Medicaid and Disability in the New York Times
Alice Wong Disability activist Alice Wong (MS ’04) penned an impassioned first-person account of the importance of Medicaid to people with disabilities in the May 3, 2017, issue of the New York Times.
In “My Medicaid, My Life,” Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project and a staff research associate in the UCSF Community Living Policy Center, chronicles how the Medicaid program has enabled her to live independently, access higher education and pursue a career as a researcher and advocate. She notes concerns that the American Health Care Act, if it becomes law, could reduce or eliminate services currently available to people with disabilities through the Medicaid program.
Adelita Tinoco Selected to Attend NINR Summer Genetics Institute
From left: former Dean David Vlahov, Professor Meg Wallhagen, Post-Doctoral Fellow Adelita Tinoco, Professor Barbara Drew, Professor Michele Pelter and Associate Adjunct Professor David Mortara pose with fellowship plaque. David Mortara Post-Doctoral Scholar Fellow in Electrocardiology Adelita Tinoco (MS ’13, PhD ’16) has been selected to attend the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) Summer Genetics Institute (SGI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Tinoco will spend four weeks at the NIH’s Bethesda campus in an intensive classroom and laboratory program intended to provide researchers a solid foundation in molecular genetics. The highly competitive SGI program seeks to increase research capacity and expand clinical practice in genetics.
DorAnne Donesky on the Future of Palliative Care Education
DorAnne Donesky Associate Adjunct Professor of Physiological Nursing DorAnne Donesky provides a perspective on palliative care education for the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation’s website.
Donesky, a 2016 Macy Foundation Scholar, notes the lack of cross-professional educational opportunities, and gives an overview of the key elements of UCSF’s Longitudinal Interprofessional Learning Experience in Palliative Care for Practicing Clinicians (Practice-PC) program, which she leads. She notes that within the decade, Practice-PC faculty “expect to staff a thriving regional Center of Interprofessional Palliative Care Education that will serve as the flagship for a consortium of regional centers across the country.”
Kathleen Puntillo Receives AACN Pioneering Spirit Award
Last month, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) presented Professor of Physiological Nursing Kathleen Puntillo and her collaborator, Judith Nelson of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, with its Pioneering Spirit Award during the 2017 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition in Houston.
Puntillo and Nelson were honored for their efforts to integrate patient-centered palliative care into critical care practice, notably through the iPAL-ICU, a project that aims to improve palliative care in ICUs by linking researchers and clinicians across disciplines with evidence and tools to integrate palliative care and intensive care.
Kathleen Puntillo Gives 37th Helen Nahm Research Lecture
Kathleen Puntillo On May 17, Professor of Physiological Nursing Kathleen Puntillo delivered the 37th annual Helen Nahm Research Lecture at the UC San Francisco School of Nursing.
In her lecture, titled “Intensive Caring: Palliation of ICU Patient and Family Distress,” Puntillo outlined the lessons learned from her career studying and working with patients and families in the intensive care unit.
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Science of Caring will post a full recap of Puntillo’s lecture in an upcoming issue.
Recent Grads Network at Advanced Practice Nursing Career Fair
Recent School of Nursing graduates had the opportunity to network with recruiters and leaders from multiple health care organizations at the May 31 Advanced Practice Nursing Career Fair, sponsored by the Associated Students of the School of Nursing.
Recruiters and leaders from the Bay Area’s leading health care organizations, including UCSF Health, the San Francisco Department of Public Health, La Clínica de La Raza and Stanford Health Care, met with graduates to talk about advanced practice nursing opportunities.
Annette Gardner and Claire Brindis Publish New Book on Advocacy and Policy
Annette Gardner (left) and Claire Brindis UCSF faculty members Annette Gardner and Claire Brindis have published Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation: Theory and Practice, a guide to developing appropriate evaluation designs and navigating advocacy tactics in a complex policy landscape.
Gardner, assistant professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, has spent two decades collaborating with leaders, policymakers and public agencies to address complex problems in health care policy. Brindis, professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics and director of UCSF’s Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, is a researcher in adolescent and child health policy and women’s health, and has served as an advisor to federal, state and local policymakers. Their book, the product of a combined 30 years of policy evaluation experience, was published in April by Stanford University Press.
Laurie Bauer on Expanding Roles for RNs in Primary Care
Laurie Bauer Health policy PhD degree student Laurie Bauer is the lead author of a paper on the future of registered nursing in primary care, published on April 7 online ahead of print in Nursing Outlook.
With co-author Thomas Bodenheimer, professor of Family and Community Medicine, Bauer outlined upcoming challenges and opportunities in primary care delivery and discussed the likelihood that registered nurses will play an expanded role. The authors noted several barriers that will need to be overcome, including payment and reimbursement challenges, reforming education to include primary nursing care skills, and scope-of-practice issues.
Heather Leutwyler Advocates for Prisoners with Mental Illness
Heather Leutwyler Assistant Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Programs in the Department of Physiological Nursing Heather Leutwyler recently authored a paper, “Case Management Helps Prevent Criminal Justice Recidivism for People with Serious Mental Illness,” with co-authors Erin Hubbard and Elaine Zahnd, which has been accepted by the International Journal of Prisoner Health.
With her co-authors, Leutwyler, who is a member of the UC Criminal Justice & Health Consortium, has also helped to draft legislation, California AB 473, and provided expert testimony before the Assembly Health Committee. The bill, which is now in review by the Assembly Appropriations Committee, would create a four-year pilot project to help counties create cost-effective programs for mentally ill adults who have substance abuse disorders in county jails.
Pi-Ju Liu Looks at Abuser Characteristics in Elder Abuse
Pi-Ju (Marian) Liu, assistant professor in the Institute for Health & Aging, led a study on elder abuse published on May 17 online ahead of print in the Journals of Gerontology.
Liu and her co-authors looked at records from 810 alleged cases of emotional/psychological abuse of older adults to determine characteristics of abusers and vulnerabilities that could put victims at higher risk for abuse. They found that emotionally draining relationships between abuser and victim, and certain abuser characteristics, such as poor temper control and angry feelings toward the victim, were significant predictors for abuse. The findings highlight avenues for further investigation into prevention of elder abuse.
Stella Bialous and Linda Sarna Honored for Tobacco Control Efforts
Stella Bialous (left) and Linda Sarna On May 31, World No Tobacco Day 2017, the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) named Stella Bialous, associate professor in residence in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and UCLA School of Nursing Dean Linda Sarna (PhD ’89), Raise the Voice: Edge Runners in recognition of their Tobacco Free Nurses (TFN) project.
Bialous and Sarna created TFN in 2003 to provide nurses with education and resources both to help them stop smoking and to help them help their patients with smoking cessation. Through the TFN website, tobaccofreenurses.org, and via multiple international projects, the TFN team seeks to engage nurses and other health care providers in tobacco control.
The Raise the Voice: Edge Runner initiative is how AAN recognizes nurse-designed models of care that improve health care quality, reduce costs and influence policy.
Faculty, Students and UCSF Nursing Colleagues Present at WIN Conference
Linda D. Gregory presented her groundbreaking work on the experiences of diverse PhD students. The School of Nursing was well represented at the 50th annual Western Institute of Nursing (WIN) conference, held in Denver in April. Faculty, students and nursing colleagues from UCSF Medical Center gave numerous presentations and posters, including those listed below.
Presentations
Melinda Bender (assistant professor, Family Health Care Nursing) – “Acceptable Culturally Relevant Lifestyle Interventions for Filipinos”
Anne Berit Petersen (PhD ’15) and Linda Sarna (PhD ’89, interim dean, UCLA School of Nursing) – “Everyone Needs a Breath of Fresh Air: Workplace Impact on Nurses’ Smoking Behaviors”
Stella Bialous (associate professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences) – “Eastern European Nurses’ Attitudes Toward Tobacco Cessation Interventions”
Stella Bialous – “Increasing Nurses’ Smoking Cessation Interventions in 5 Countries”
Mary Hunter (PhD degree candidate) – “Long-Term HT Users’ Perceptions of Risk”
Melissa Mazor (predoctoral student) and Christine Miaskowski (professor, Physiological Nursing) – “The Influence of Menopausal Status on Symptom Experience After Breast Cancer Surgery”
Nancy Dudley (PhD ’16 and VA Quality Scholar) and Margaret Wallhagen (professor, Physiological Nursing) – “Facilitating Community-Based Palliative Care for Older Adults with Advanced Illness”
Schola Matovu (PhD degree candidate) and Margaret Wallhagen – “Experiences of Grandparents Caring for Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda”
Posters
Hamza Abid (MS degree candidate) – “Redesigning a Hybrid Classroom Genomics Minor for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses”
Lorinda Coombs (PhD degree candidate) and Wendy Max (professor, co-director, Institute for Health & Aging) – “The Quantity of Care Provided by Nurse Practitioners to Older Adults with Cancer” (awarded “Best Gerontology Practice Presentation”)
Carmen Ward-Sullivan (PhD degree candidate), Heather Leutwyler (assistant professor, Physiological Nursing) and Christine Miaskowski – “Symptom Clusters in Breast Cancer Patients One Week After Chemotherapy”
Linda Gregory (PhD degree candidate) – “Navigating the Nursing Academy: Stories by PhD Underrepresented Minority Students”
Tina Ly (RN, UCSF Medical Center) – “T-Piece Resuscitation: To Use or Not to Use?”
Tamara O’Connor (RN, UCSF Medical Center) – “Preparing for a Safe Pediatric Psychiatric Patient Admission”
Julianna Boydston (RN, UCSF Medical Center) – “Optimization of Sedation Management in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care: Implementations of a Daily Ordered State Behavioral Scale Goal”
Melody Haworth (RN, UCSF Medical Center) – “Intentionally Round Like a CHAMP: Communicative, Hourly, Anticipatory, Mindful and Purposeful Rounding”
Vivian Huang (RN, UCSF Medical Center) – “Standardizing Central Line KVO Rates in the Adult Inpatient Population”
