Education Articles

A series of symposia given by UC San Francisco School of Nursing’s Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program aims to help future clinicians provide more understanding, compassionate care to people with severe mental illness.

In an effort to better meet the mental health needs of Bay Area veterans, a new psychiatric/mental health NP residency creates opportunities for building important alliances between the San Francisco VA Health Care System and UC San Francisco School of Nursing.

By creating the Sally Bates Endowed Chair in Health Disparities, pioneering neurosurgeon Ernest Bates honors the memory of his mother and the value of nurses and nurse scientists in the essential effort to erase health inequities.

Nurse practitioner Ann Reppun inspires advanced practice nursing and medical students to bring their passion and knowledge to caring for the underserved.

The push to make health care education more interprofessional has taken on a new urgency with the increased focus on high-value care. Despite a host of challenges, UCSF and other institutions are looking at innovative ways to make this happen.

Angel Chen – one of the first interprofessional inductees into the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators – argues that now is the time for clinical teaching environments to fully embrace interprofessional collaborative practice.

When five faculty members from a newly established Center for Global Health attended the International Council of Nurses and Council of National Nursing Association Representatives conference in Seoul, South Korea, they came away with a renewed sense of how good global health depends on nurses becoming true global citizens.

Residency program gives pre-licensure MEPN students invaluable early experience while deepening UC San Francisco’s working relationship with the Veterans Health Administration.

UC San Francisco School of Nursing is forging clinical partnerships to train a new generation of primary care providers to work in patient-centered, interprofessional teams.

As recognition of the need for palliative care expands, UC San Francisco School of Nursing responds with an innovative new program.

UC San Francisco School of Nursing has a deep historical commitment to the health of the elderly and remains a national force in the evolving field of gerontological nursing.

Changes in nursing, health care and how people learn demand changes in what and how nursing schools prepare students.