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Announcing National APP Week September 25-29, 2023
During National APP week September 25-29, 2023, there will be organized events to celebrate and appreciate UCSF APPs. There will be educational sessions, awards and acknowledgments of APP contributions through social media, newsletters and in-person gatherings.
On Wednesday September 27, 2023 there will be 12-1pm lecture by Elisabeth Gundersen, MS, ANP-BC "Building Tools for Serious Illness Communication and Resiliency into your Practice. Zoom link.
Also on this day, the 2023 Exceptional APP Awards Virtual celebration will go live on the UCSF Health Recognition site. We invite you to share in this momentous occasion by watching at your leisure or by joining us at any one of the UCSF Watch Party locations near you 5:15-7pm. Light refreshments will be served.
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National APP Week sessions at 12 noon September 25-29, 2023
Monday September 25 12 noon: National APP week Kick Off Ceremony
Tuesday September 26 12 noon: Presidents Panel Discussion
Wednesday September 27 12 noon: International Organizations Greetings
Thursday September 28 12 noon Presidents Panel Discussion
Friday September 29 12 noon: National APP Awards and Closing Ceremony
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Congratulations to all the APPs who were nominated for the
UCSF Health 2023 Exceptional APP Award
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Aaron Pachner, PA
Alexandria Ludlow, NP
Allison Lamboy, NP
Angela Clifford, PA
Anny Su, NP
Anthony Pringle, NP
Archana Chandra, NP
Ariel Joves, NP
Bennett Lareau-Meredith, NP
Bethany Geleris, NP
Brenna Esparza, NP
Brian Dentoni-Lasofsky, NP
Cana Jenkins, NP
Christine Cadelina, NP
Christopher Acebedo, NP
Crystal Bravate, PA
Dennis Dentoni-Lasofsky, NP
Emily Hylton, CRNA
Erica Southworth, NP
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Jane Pun, NP
Jeffrey Nakamaru, CRNA
Jennifer Osborn, NP
Jocelyn Malott, NP
Kacie Cooke, PA
Karen Spuller, NP
Katie Gibson, NP
Kristen Ghoussaini, NP
Lisa Catalli, NP
Lisette Paz, PA
Matthew Stephen, PA
Megan Bailey, PA
Megan Rathfon, NP
Meron Bekele, NP
MIchael Silva, NP
Michelle Rhee, PA
Molly Kenward, NP
Natalie Davis, NP
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Regina Gould, NP
Roseanne Krauter, NP
Rossana Segovia, NP
Ryan Wilson, PA
Sarah Palilla, PA
Sian Mara, PA
Stephanie Feng, NP
Thomas Dodsworth, NP
Wendy Cook, PA
Won Kim, NP
Zaineh Khalil, NP
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UCSF Halth 2023 Award winners will be announced during APP week | |
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Tara Lacey named as the APP Oncology Summit 2023 APP Most Valuable Provider Award
The APP Oncology Summit (APPOS) conference was held on August 18 and 19, 2023 in San Francisco. APP Oncology Summits are developed with and for advanced practice providers including nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs), pharmacists, and RNs. Read more about MVP awards. Tara's essence resonates with this award--a true MVP who seamlessly blends clinical knowledge, compassion, interdisciplinary collaboration, and mentorship. In her work, Tara embodies the core values that this award symbolizes. She has also been recognized with a UCSF PRIDE award. She has published extensively on the topics of cancer care, serves as a co-instigator for numerous cancer therapy clinical trials and is the clinical site coordinator for the UCSF Cancer services APP fellowship program. Hear more from Tara's nominator, Gabe Schwartz, NP.
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Cancer Center APPs representing UCSF at an Oncology Summit
Brittany Dingler, PA-C moderated a multidisciplinary head and neck oncology tumor board and served on the APPOS planning committee. The panel was an innovative education method using real world cases to illustrate the principles of head and neck cancer care and the importance of the multidisciplinary team. Laura Zitella, NP presented "Updates in Lymphoma" and also served on the APPOS planning Committee. More about APPOS.
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Pediatric Trauma Surgery adds new PA
Jenny Mustard, PA is the newest team member of the BCH Oakland Pediatric Trauma Surgery Program. Since graduating from the OHSU PA program in 2018 she worked with cardiology adult and pediatric population including procedural care in cath lab and acute inpatient setting. With a strong interest in community health initiatives she partnered with the department of health in American Samoa in their prevention and treatment of rheumatic heart disease in children. When not working, she enjoys traveling around the world in the backcountry skiing and kiteboarding. Welcome Jenny to UCSF BCH Oakland and the APP community at large.
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UCSF's Simulation Lab
Surgical and Critical Care NP fellows completed the annual Simulation-Based Training on August 21, 2023 at Kanbar Center for Simulation and Clinical Skills. Fellow’s practiced critical care bedside invasive procedures on task trainers and course leaders Megan Del Vecchio, AGACNP-BC and Karin Clifton, ACNP-BC developed three critical care scenarios allowing fellows to practice their procedural, knowledge, and communication skills on high-fidelity mannequins. Read more
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Pediatric Grand Rounds--West Bay
Every Thursday 12-1pm. September 14, 2023 Kayla Karvonen, MD.
Confronting Racism to Advance Neonatal Health Equity. Here is there schedule. Click here for zoom link. Archive videos available here
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Pediatric Grand Rounds--East Bay
Every Tuesday 8-9am
For Zoom login information, contact: Cristina Fernandez crfernandez@ucsf.edu, 510-428-3885 ext 4343. Full schedule and archived videos (Password: CHRCO).
August schedule
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 TODAY
"Updated Guidelines for Prevention and Management of Obesity in Children and Adolescents". Presented by June Tester, MD, MPH
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
"Health in Pregnancy and Impacts on Childhood Development". Presented by Kimberly Larson, MD
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APP Grand Rounds
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
12noon-1PM TODAY
"60 Different Measures and No Standardization: What we still need for frailty determination in advanced heart failure and durable mechanical circulatory support" presented by Sarah Schroeder, APRN Bryan Heart LVAD NP and Program Manager.
Steps to Register in Advance:
1.Point your camera to QR code above or click here 2. To claim 1-hour CEU for RN/NP/CRNA/CNM, Preregister at Nursing Connect: Click here. Search by title "Frailty" or "Mechanical circulatory support". Archived APP Grand Rounds
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Nursing Grand Rounds
Hosted by the Nursing Professional Development Council during Nursing Professional Development Week, this event will facilitate panel sessions to bring awareness of the Professional Development opportunities available within the practice of nursing.
Topics include: An overview of the Center for Nursing Excellence and Innovation (CNEI) and its vision to promote excellence, Evidence-Based Practice fellowship as a bridge to improve outcomes
September 14, 2023, 9-11am Approved for 2 contact hours by Provider CEP #12980. For more info
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APP Journal Club
All are welcome to attend a collaborative journal club between Cleveland Clinic, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and UCSF Critical Care Adult APPs. Topics are not limited to journal articles.
Wednesday September 27, 2023 10am or Thursday September 18, 2023 10am
Topic: to be determined
Facilitated by Critical Care APPs Karin Clifton ACNP-BC and Kristina Kordesch ACNP-BC
For exact date/time and zoom information, please email Karin.clifton@ucsf.edu or Kristina.kordesch@ucsf.edu
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Learn How to Create a Poster or Podium Presentation
Maria Yefimova, PhD, RN, Lead Nurse Scientist, UCSF Center for Nursing Excellence and Innovation will be facilitating a 1-hr zoom meeting to help you learn how to prepare for a poster for podium presentation with hear from colleagues as they share their own presentation experiences.
Wednesday September 13, 12-1:15pm
Meeting ID: 935 7141 2293 Password: 515114
will be recorded for distribution to those who are unable to attend the live event. Hosted by Ambulatory Professional Development Committee
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PIPE Program for Interprofessional Practice
Interested in Interprofessional classroom facilitation, curriculum development or committee engagement? Read more about this opportunity to help grow interprofessional practice at UCSF. Email Angel.Kuo@ucsf.edu with any questions.
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UCSF Contemporary Issues in Advanced Practice Virtual Conference
Friday October 20, 2023 8:30am - 5pm
Come and listen to the keynote speakers and then join special interest tracks
Acute Care, Education Performance, Hot Topics, Primary Care
6 CME category 1 credits available.
For full list of speakers and to register read more.
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Coming Soon: New APP Billing and Coding Module (UC Learning)
To improve APP comprehension, efficiency and implementation of billing and coding, there is a new module. Anticipated launch of the module on Monday, October 2, 2023. The due date to complete the module is Tuesday, October 31, 2023. This has been announced to your managers, and we have asked them to work with you to identify 60 minutes during October for module completion. This is applicable to UCSF and BCH Oakland NPs, PAs and midwives. Not applicable to CRNAs.
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Retiring Paging System September 12, 2023
September 12, 2023 all pagers will forward to Voalte. Voalte was rolled out early 2022 to modernize and standardize inpatient clinical communication with institutional adoption of Voalte over the past 18 months. PagerBox retiring September 30, 2023
Pagers used to cover a service will be copy forwarded to the equivalent Voalte role.
Inorder to receive pages sent to a sevice pager, providers will be REQUIRED to log into the equivalent Voalte Role/Unit combinations.
Before Sept 12 go live test pager forwarding:
- Log into Voalte using "APP" role
- Confirm access to the "On-service UCSF PARN/MZ/OAK/MB" role
- Page yourself via CareWeb
- If you do not receive the page--> notifiy Clinical communications
Retirement of Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland paging system will take place in 2024.
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Tip sheet for APP wRVU
wRVU measure billable work and denote your direct financial contribution to UCSF Health. They are not used for your annual APP performance evaluation and are just one of the ways value is assessed. Click here for wRVU tip sheet
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JUSTICE, EQUITY AND INCLUSION | |
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Intensive Caring
Contributed by Dr. Michael Rabow
In the context of patients who are hopeless, Harvey Chochinov, MD writes about the deep importance of affirming the value of our patients.
The 5 core elements of Intensive Caring are:
Nonabandonment, Taking an interest in the patient as a person, Holding/containing hope and Dignity affirming tone of care. 5 core elements of Intensive Caring
More Communication Tips by Dr. Mike Rabow
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How to update your APP information
Click here to update your information via Carelinks and outlook email profile.
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Get your flu vaccination
Unless medically contraindicated, you're encouraged to get a free flue vaccine this fall in order to protect you, your family, coworkers and patients. Compliance deadline for UCSF employees is November 1, 2023. Flu vaccines are requied by public health agencies and the university of California. For the flu vaccination outreach schedule.
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National Clinical Nurse Specialist Recognition Week
September 1-7, 2023
CNS provide leadership in clinical expertise, nursing practice and systems innovation. At UCSF Health, CNS practice in a variety of specialities leading interprofessional teams, driving Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) reduction efforts, promoting shared-governance at the unit and department level and coordinating plans of care to ensure high-quality, evidenced-based, and patient centered care. Celebrate our amazing CNS.
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Oakland Campus Modernization Program
The Oakland modernization program is one aspect of the many efforts for continued investments in patient care in the East Bay. Read more on the three buildings that are included in the program.
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New UC Retirement Savings Program--A Roth Option
UC enhanced its UC Retirement Savings Program with a new Roth contribution option for the UC403(b) and UC 457(b) plans, giving you more flexibility to save and plan for your future through regular pretax contributions, new Roth contributions, or both. Read more.
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New APPs Who Joined UCSF Health
Please extend a warm welcome to our newly hired APPs
Jamie Li, NP Pediatric Neonatal
Kayla Vaughan, NP Pediatric Neonatal
Lindo Fae, NP Vascular Surgery
Marissa Kristensen, NP Breast Surgery Oncology
Ariana Nassiri, NP OrthoSpine
Erica Gagliardi, NP General Medicine
Ilaria Mastroserio, PA Inpatient HBC
Anna Pasternak, NP Anesthesia
Laura Cicchetti, NP Obstetrics Clinic FOGG
Rosalind De Lisser, NP Med core INFD
Xander Gotowski, NP Adult Neurology
Briana Brady, PA, Breast Plastic Surgery
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Are you a PA and going to CAPA Con 2023?
UCSF Talent Acquisition will be at CAPA Con 2023 in Anaheim, CA October 5,6,8 and would like to partner with you to help recruit future UCSF PAs. Email Michelle.Graves@ucsf.edu for more information. Click here for more info on CAPA Con 2023.
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Applications open for the 2024 EBP Fellowship Program
This is a 9-month program March 2024 through November 2024 (zoom and in person) held at the UCSF Center for Nursing Excellence 2001 The Embarcadero, the 1st Wednesday of every month from 8:30-430pm. This program leverages concepts of decision-making, implementation science and evaluation of change. It includes participation in 55 hours of graduate level EBP didatic education. For more info. Email Elisa.Jang@ucsf.edu with any questions. Application is here and deadline is October 13, 2023. Info sessions and more resources.
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Improving APP Efficiency through EHR Personalization
Roseanne Krauter, FNP-BC, CORLN, Director of Informatics and Clinical System in the Office of Advanced Practice Providers publishes a case study on leveraging onboarding, efficiency initiatives and ongoing training to optimize APPs' workflows and enhance their EHR experience. Read more
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Bedside Procedures and Soiled Instruments
Starting in September there will be new "Single Cycle Disposable Bins". These bins look out take out containers and are to be used to contain and transport dirty instruments. So if you perform any bedside procedure and uses single use instruments do not leave the instruments on the counter of the dirty utility room. Instead, notify the Charge Nurse if you are doing a procedure so the new process of using these single cycle Disposable Bin can be followed.
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Another APP becomes a Lean Champion
Hani Gutierrez, MSN, RN, CPNP BCH Oakland Manager APP is the most recent APP to become a Lean champion. She is the first in her leadership cohort to reach this milestone and joins a dynamic group of interprofessional leaders who have earned this distinction. Teach back is the culmination of UCSF Health's most intensive continuous improvement training program. Participants are evaluated on knowledge and comprehension of fundamental principles.
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Support the BCH APP Community
Are you looking for something new to re-invigorate you? The Benioff Children's Hospital APP Leadership Committee is looking for a new chair and co-chair and would love someone looking to develop and/or strengthen their leadership skills. For more information contact Bonnie Taft (Bonnie.taft@ucsf.edu).
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Click here for the the portal to UC Learning Center where you can find many micro videos, e-books, e-courses and more. Topics range from communication to career advancement and mentorship. Whats trending is the most popular book of the month "Orchestrating Attitude" (30min book).
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Mid-Day Mindfullness
UCSF Spiritual Care invites you to pause to care for yourself, to re-center, and re-connect with what grounds you. Its just 15 minutes recurring daily: Monday through Friday 12-12:15pm. Webinar ID 926 5991 1873 Password 081257. Click here
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Office Hours: Office of Advanced Practice Providers
Meeting ID: 912 4155 9875 Password: 503138
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 12-1PM TODAY
Host: Tara Valcarcel, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC Director of Operations, Pediatric Services
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Cancelled due to APP week activities
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NP III Application Deadlines
Initial applications are due September 29, 2023. Reappointment applications are due August 31, 2023. More info here.
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Ivette Becerra-Ortiz, DNP, MPH, NP, RN, NEA-BC, C-PNP Chief of Advanced Practice Providers | |
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Kurstan Del Rosario Senior Operations Analyst
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Tara Valcarcel, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC Director, Pediatric Operations Advanced Practice Providers | |
Roseanne "Rosie" Krauter, FNP-BC, CORLN Director of Clinical Systems | |
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Brandon Sessler MMS,PA-C
Director of Professional Practice Fellowship Coordinator
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Alisa Yee, MSN, ACNP-BC
Director, Adult Operations Advanced Practice Providers
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UCSF Health PRIDE Values Professionalism • Respect • Integrity • Diversity • Excellence | | | | |
