(note: this news item will be updated through Summer 2024)

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• Disruption and Improvisation: Experiences of Loneliness for People With Chronic Illness — Leslie Dubbin, PhD, RN, Aug. 26, 2024
• Association Between Self-Direction and Personal Care Aide Wages — Susan Chapman, PhD, RN, FAAN, Aug. 26, 2024
• Approach to Graduate Nursing Education Pedagogy and Learning Transition — Lisa Guertin, DNP, MS, ACNP, Elizabeth Gatewood, DNP, FNP, FAAN, Stella Bialous, DrPH, RN, FAAN, Brittany Christiansen, DNP, PhD, PNP, Lin Lin, PhD, RN, Beth Phoenix, PhD, RN, FAAN, Yuriko Shichishima, MS, RN, CNE (alumna, not pictured), KT Waxman, DNP, RN, FAAN, November-December 2024 (Editor’s note: This publication resulted from the work of the Teaching and Learning Modality task force.)
• Susan Chapman, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences, was a panelist during the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's July 10 workshop, "Addressing Workforce Challenges Across the Behavioral Health Continuum in Care." Chapman shared research on peer support providers and nurse practitioner prescribing for opioid use disorders, research that was conducted with Beth Phoenix, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor emeritus in Community Health Systems; Joanne Spetz, PhD, professor in the Institute for Health Policy Studies; and Matt Tierney, MS, NP, FAAN, medical director of inpatient substance use management at UCSF Health.
• Orlando Harris, PhD, MPH, FAAN, associate professor, received a grant from Heluna Health for his project "HOPE: A Status-Neutral Mobile Unit for African Americans Experiencing Homelessness in Alameda County." The award is $19,692.
• Professors Stella Bialous, DrPH, RN, FAAN, and Ruth Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, have been selected to join a global 14-member expert group that will develop a report on forward-looking tobacco control measures. The need for the expert group was established at the 10th Conference of the parties of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the only United Nations treaty focused on health.
• Orlando Harris, PhD, MPH, FAAN, associate professor, has been selected as an inaugural fellow of the Academy of Diversity Leaders in Nursing. The new fellowship, established by the National Black Nurses Association, recognizes nurse leaders for their significant and sustained contributions to advancing justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in nursing and health care. 
• Birthdate-Based Commercial Tobacco Sales Restrictions: Will 'Tobacco-Free Generation' Policies Advance or Delay the Endgame? — Ruth Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, Tim McAfee (not pictured), June 19, 2024
• Catherine Waters, PhD, RN, FAAN, was quoted in the UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Office's June 2024 news story "Merit and Promotions: Expanding Our Mindset to Meet Today's Opportunities."
• Orlando Harris will be among the featured speakers in the webinar “Alarming Trends to Limit Health Equity” on June 17, 10-11:30 a.m. The webinar, presented by the American Academy of Nursing, will feature Harris and other speakers discussing how nurses can effectively lead the way to make positive change, challenges that the nursing profession and communities are facing, and actionable strategies for inclusion and health equity through nursing leadership. Register by June 14.
• Ulrike Muench will be a guest presenter in the webinar "Using CMS Data for Health Workforce Research" on June 11, 12-1 p.m. Register to receive the Zoom link. The webinar will provide an overview of how to use Medicare claims and other Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data to conduct health workforce research.
• Closing the Gender Pay Gap for Female Nurses Promotes Equity and Supports the Health Care Workforce — Ulrike Muench, PhD, RN, FAAN, May 29, 2024
• The Importance of Developmental Assets in HIV Prevention Behaviors Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) — Orlando Harris, PhD, MPH, FAAN, May 28, 2024
• It Is Time to Replace the Term "Patient Care Technician" in Dialysis — Susan Chapman, PhD, MPH, RN, April 6, 2024 
• Proposed Minimum Nurse Staffing Levels in Nursing Homes — Elizabeth Halifax, PhD, RN, Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN, FAAN, March 26, 2024
• Intersectional Mentorship in Academic Medicine: A Conceptual Review — Orlando Harris, PhD, MPH, FAAN, April 19, 2024
• Designing Implementation Strategies for the Inclusion of LGBTQIA+ and Key Populations Content in Undergraduate Nursing Curricula in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa: Protocol for a Multi-Methods Research Project — Orlando Harris, PhD, MPH, FAAN, April 10, 2024
• Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN, FAAN, was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle's April 24 article "U.S. Sets New Staffing Rules for Nursing Homes But Critics Say It's Not Enough."
• Exploring the Interrelationships Between Physical Function, Functional Exercise Capacity, and Exercise Self-Efficacy in Persons Living With HIV — Carmen Portillo, PhD, RN, FAAN, Carol Dawson-Rose, PhD, RN, FAAN, Feb. 16, 2024
• Training Home Care Workers Reduces Emergency Room Service Utilization — Susan Chapman, PhD, MPH, FAAN, Mel Neri, BA, Robert Newcomer, PhD, March 2024
• Public Willingness, Attitudes and Related Factors Toward Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Grounded Theory Study — Catherine Waters, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dec. 18, 2023
• United States’ Nursing Home Finances: Spending, Profitability and Capital Structure — Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dec. 19, 2023
• Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN, FAAN, was quoted in Artesia Daily Press' Dec. 25 article “Everywhere You Go is Short Staffed: New Mexico Nursing Homes in Crisis.”
• The Association Between Cognitive Ability and Opioid Prescribing in Vulnerable Older Adults With Chronic Pain in Ambulatory Care: A Secondary Data Analysis Using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey — Ulrike Muench, PhD, RN, FAAN, Kyung Mi Kim, PhD, Nov. 16, 2023
• New Editor at the Most Exciting Time in Tobacco Control — Ruth Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, November 2023
• Susan Chapman, PhD, MPH, FAAN, professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences, was a panelist and Wagner was the moderator for the session “Reducing Health Workforce Turnover in a Complex Health Care Environment" at the HRSA National Press Club Symposium “Addressing Health Workforce Shortages Now and in the Future,” on Oct. 11 in Washington, D.C. Watch the recording.
• A new publication co-authored by Orlando Harris, PhD, MPH, FAAN, associate professor in Community Health Systems, has been selected as the Editor’s Choice manuscript in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. The paper is titled “Opportunities to Increase Access to HIV Prevention: Evaluating the Implementation of Pharmacist-Initiated PrEP in California.”
• Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN, professor emerita in Social and Behavioral Sciences, presented a keynote speech at the 22nd German Conference on Health Services Research on Oct. 4 in Berlin. Her talk was titled “Translating Research into Long-Term Care Facility Policy Changes.”
• Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor emerita in Social and Behavioral Sciences, will be honored with the Dan Osterweil Outstanding Leader in Post Acute and Long Term Care Award. The award from the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine honors Harrington for her advocacy and evidence-based research in appropriate staffing and quality nursing home care. She will receive the award at the organization’s Nov. 3 summit.
• Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN, FAAN, was cited in the Mirror’s Sept. 6 article “Nursing Homes Will Have Staff Requirements For the First Time. What Will Change?”
• Young, Black/African American, and Latino Communities Are Left Behind Despite Legislative Efforts in California to Reduce HIV/STI Disparities — Orlando Harris, PhD, MPH, FNP, Sept. 14, 2023
• Advanced Practice Clinician Care and End-of-Life Outcomes for Community- and Nursing Home-Dwelling Medicare Beneficiaries With Dementia — Ulrike Muench, PhD, RN, FAAN, September 2023