News & Events: Advanced Practice Nursing

Kerry Decker, MSN, RN, NP, co-Director of the UCSF Surgical and Critical Care Nurse Practitioner Fellowship, recently discussed the challenges NPs face in assimilating into high-acuity environments such as neurosurgery, intensive care units (ICUs) and transplant service in "Science of Caring", a UCSF School of Nursing's publication. Also interviewed for the article was Sheila Antrum, RN, BSN, MHSA, President UCSF Medical Center, Senior Vice President, Adult Services UCSF Health, and Chief Nursing Officer, UCSF Medical Center. Decker underscored the importance of programs like the Surgical [...]

The career of nurse practitioner Joanna Delong, RN, MS, NP, Clinical Director of the UCSF Heart and Vascular Center, was the subject of a recent profile in the School of Nursing's "Science of Caring". The article "Creating Opportunities for Nurse Practitioners to Help Save Limbs and More" describes her diverse set of nursing experiences, including in the liver transplant intensive care unit (ICU) at University of Pittsburgh, in the cardiac ICU at UCSF Medical Center, and as an informatics expert leading a team that built the nursing documentation for the first electronic medical record (EMR) [...]