The Center for Nursing Research & Innovation

Overview

The Center for Nursing Research & Innovation is a joint venture between the UCSF School of Nursing, Patient Care Services at UCSF Medical Center, and Patient Care Services Stanford Hospital and Clinics of the Stanford University Medical Center and Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital of the Stanford University Medical Center. Both UCSF Medical Center and Stanford University Medical Center are consistently ranked among the top nineteen hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. In addition, U.S. News & World Report's graduate school rankings place the UCSF School of Nursing as the nation's second best nursing school.

The Center for Nursing Research & Innovation:

• Facilitates research by fostering a spirit of inquiry, coordinating clinical research resources, promoting studies that are aligned with strategic improvement priorities, and linking investigators with clinical sites.
• Fosters the capacity to interpret, apply and conduct research that improves patient care quality, cost and outcomes.
• Strengthens the scientific validity and effectiveness of patient care practices.
• Provides consultation and education that contributes to improving nursing practice, patient care and organizational performance.
• Conducts new product clinical evaluations and technology assessments that advance strategic performance improvement.
• Serves as a clearinghouse for emerging new knowledge for nursing practice, innovation transfer and clinical practice guidelines and best practices.

The Director of the Center is Nancy Donaldson, RN, DNSc, FAAN. For additional information, please see Administration, the Director's CV, Vision & Mission and Priorities & Activities. We encourage you to Contact Us with your questions, requests for information, or comments.

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