Education Articles

The School of Nursing equips students to develop innovative solutions to address social determinants of health. Through rigorous coursework and hands-on clinical training, the curriculum goes beyond the theoretical and prepares nurse leaders to advance health equity.

Nurses comprise more than half of the world’s health care workforce. However, nurses are underrepresented in senior health care leadership positions, despite improved regulatory and working conditions for nurses when they hold these roles. The UCSF Leadership Institute is poised to tackle this issue for California.

Health care providers need to understand the mounting impacts of climate change to provide quality care to patients and communities. A new course led by UCSF nursing faculty aims to do just that.

The first of its kind in the U.S., the FirstGenRN program identifies applicants and students who are the first in their family to go to college, and provides them with mentoring and support in advancing their careers.

The first of its kind in California, the UC Multi-Campus Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Post-Master’s Certificate Program will prepare 300 psychiatric nurse practitioners within a five-year period.

The UCSF School of Nursing has launched the new UCSF Leadership Institute. One of only a handful such centers nationwide, the UCSF Leadership Institute provides leadership training to nurses and other health care professionals across the career spectrum, regionally and around the globe. The new institute builds on existing degree programs at the School that prepare nurses to lead in their profession. From left, Justin Pohl, director of the UCSF Leadership Institute; KT Waxman, director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program and co-director of the Leadership Institute; and Lisa Lommel, director of the MS in Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership program, are helping prepare nurses to lead in their professions. (Photo credit: Elisabeth Fall)

To prepare future nurse leaders to address these challenges, the UCSF School of Nursing is blending hands-on clinical opportunities in underrepresented communities with a master’s curriculum that focuses on understanding and advancing health equity.

By fall 2024, the UCSF School of Nursing plans to launch streamlined academic pathways to meet the growing demand for doctorally prepared nurses who will lead transformative change in an increasingly complex health care arena.