October 29, 2020
Registered nurses Daniel Ambler and Rose Deocampo graduated from the New Graduate Nurse Transition to Practice Program during the COVID-19 pandemic. Becoming a Nurse in the Era of COVID-19 When a nurse is asked why he or she chose to enter the profession, the common answer often revolves around the…
May 6, 2021
Nurses By Day, Social Justice Activists By Night Laura Chechel, center, with Christina Kelley and Danisha Jenkins on right, standing together with other local nurses during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020. Since May 2020, a team of registered nurses in San Diego have taken part in efforts advocating…
May 12, 2022
…his Associates Degree in Nursing and plans of take his National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) in the summer to become a Registered Nurse. A Nursing Student’s DREAM Watching nurses tend to his beloved grandfather, diagnosed with terminal cancer, Christopher Vela decided he wanted to be a nurse, too. The level…
May 10, 2023
The New Graduate Nurse Transition to Practice Program at UC San Diego Health offers nurses with lifelong learning, training and other opportunities.
February 3, 2020
In the first national study of its size, researchers at UC San Diego have found that nurses are at higher risk of suicide than the general population. Results were published in the February edition of WORLDviews on Evidence Based-Nursing.
November 1, 2012
Margarita Baggett, MSN, BSN, RN, chief nursing officer (CNO) and interim chief operating officer (COO) for UC San Diego Health System has been elected President of the Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL), a prestigious statewide organization that advances the art and profession of nursing.
February 27, 2023
Judy Davidson, DNP, RN, nurse scientist at UC San Diego Health, mentors other nurses with their research projects. Davidson’s passion for nurse research projects is evident with a new $1.5 million grant to study nurse suicide risk detection and prevention strategies.
May 7, 2020
…Heroes: UC San Diego Nurses Pour Hearts into Caring for Patients with COVID-19 Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers have worked around the clock to care for patients suffering from the effects of this new virus. Nurses, such as Stephanie Lichtwardt, have become like a second…
December 21, 2020
In a new study, University of California San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health researchers report that the rate of firearm use by female nurses who die by suicide increased between 2014 to 2017.
December 5, 2011
Margarita M. Baggett, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer, UC San Diego Health System, is the winner of Nursing Management’s 2011 Visionary Leader award. The annual award recognizes a nurse leader who “views nursing as both art and science by promoting caring and competence as the link between science and humanity.”
