News & Events: Surgical Critical Care

The UCSF Surgical and Critical Care Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Program, a joint program of the Department of Surgery, Department of Anesthesia, and UCSF Health, was recently awarded the Accreditation with Distinction, the highest recognition awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Accreditation Program: UCSF Surgical and Critical Care Fellowship Program is accredited with distinction as a Practice Transition Program by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. The Surgical and Critical Care Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Program is led by nurse [...]

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 [...]

Frontline Medical News reports on the expanded roles and responsibilities nurse practitioners are assuming in the provision of critical care services in an interview with Thomas Farley, RN, NP, ACNP-BC, co-Director, of the Surgical and Critical Care NP Fellowship Program at UCSF: At the University of California, San Diego, Critical Care Summer Session, Mr. Farley described the expanded role nurse practitioners (NPs) have played in critical care services for about a decade at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In 2004, Dr. Michael Matthay, a pulmonologist, and Dr. Michael [...]

A paper co-authored by Thomas Farley, RN, NP, ACNP-BC, co-Director of the Surgical and Critical Care NP Fellowship Program at UCSF, in the journal "ICU Director", discusses the integration of nurse practitioners into the Critical Care Medicine Service at UCSF Medical Center: Abstract: Nurse practitioners are becoming established clinicians in the intensive care unit. This article describes the integration of nurse practitioners into the Critical Care Medicine Service at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. The development and current form of the nurse practitioner [...]