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Nursing
The School of Nursing currently has about 700 students enrolled in our three undergraduate and
two graduate nursing programs. To meet the curricular needs of our students we have twelve
tenure, tenure-track faculty and 65 adjunct faculty members. We currently have 2 full time
administrative staff members and one vacant position to support the administrative functions
of the School. We offer three of our programs at off-site locations including Cañada College,
Stanford University Hospital and Medical Center, and San Francisco General Hospital. We are
partnered with over 15 area hospitals and numerous community agencies and medical practices.
Our faculty members serve on several area advisory boards and provide services to a number
of agencies in the Bay Area. The School is in a time of flux with the implementation of new
graduate curriculum this fall and ongoing revision of the undergraduate curriculum to meet
accreditation standards. The School is also expanding the use of simulation in both the graduate
and undergraduate nursing programs including the development of a standardized patient
program. Scholarship among faculty members is as varied as the specialties of our faculty. Much
of our scholarship is focused on nursing education but faculty members are also very active in
pursuing their research outside the educational arena. Other areas of scholarship that nursing
faculty members are engaged in include: symptom management and self-care in women with
breast cancer; sleep disorders, substance abuse, symptom experience in HIV infected adults;
sleep disorders in the post-natal period; disparities in breast feeding rates; nutrition in pregnancy;
prison nursing; occupational injuries among working RNs; perception of risk for occupational
injury; health literacy among day laborers; and medication adherence, cardiovascular risk factors
and smoke cessation among elderly Chinese immigrants.

Student Honors
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Jen M. Block, FNP, NP-C, MSN, RN, CDE currently works as a nurse practitioner
for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and as a research nurse for Stanford
University in the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology. Jen has works on a
wide variety of clinical trials using CGM and artificial pancreas technology.
She has published and traveled extensively to present on the use of technology
in the management of type 1 diabetes; is an author on the American Diabetes
Association’s current clinical practice guidelines for the management of preexisting diabetes in pregnancy; and is a co-investigator on a research study
examining the impact of a novel method of diabetes care for adolescents with
type 1 diabetes in poor glycemic control. Jen also serves as consultant and active
member of several clinical advisory boards helping to guide development of new
and novel drugs and devices aimed at improving the lives of people living with
diabetes.
Monica Cfarku earned her Masters of Science in Nursing Administration from
San Francisco State University in August of 2012. Her field study focus was
on interprofessional communication and collaboration between physicians
and nurses and how effective/ineffective communication can impact patient
outcomes. Monica continues to work on her project and in June of 2012
she, along with a physician leader, was awarded the title of Co-Chair of
the Interprofessional Education (IPE) Task Force at the Stanford School of
Medicine where they are currently working to helping reform the curriculum to
include an IPE thread across the continuum of the medical students education.
Monica volunteers her time as a facilitator at UCSF’s Interprofessional
Education days and has been doing so for two years, and has also been
volunteering for the past seven years for the San Francisco Avon Breast Cancer
Walk as part of the medical team.

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