Research & Innovation
CRIPC - Research and Practice Committee - Research Units
Center for Research & Innovation in Patient Care (CRIPC)
The Center for Research & Innovation in Patient Care is a joint program of UCSF, Stanford,and the UCSF School of Nursing. The mission of the Center is to ensure the quality, efficacy and cost-effectiveness of patient care.
The center:
- Facilitates research by fostering a spirit of inquiry, coordinating clinical
research resources, promoting studies that are aligned with strategic improvement
priorities, and linking investigators with clinical sites.
- Fosters the capacity to interpret, apply and conduct research that improves patient
care quality, cost and outcomes.
- Strengthens the scientific validity and effectiveness of patient care practices.
- Provides consultation and education that contributes to improving nursing practice,
patient care and organizational performance.
- Conducts new product clinical evaluations and technology assessments that advance
strategic performance improvement.
- Serves as a clearinghouse for emerging new knowledge for nursing practice, innovation transfer and clinical practice guidelines and best practices.
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Research & Practice Committee
The Nursing Research and Practice Committee (RPC) serves as a resource for infusing evidence-based practice into all aspects of nursing care. This is accomplished by providing broad oversight for evaluating standards of care, procedures, and research within the Department of Nursing. Members of the RPC include the Director of Educations and Clinical Practice, clinical nurse specialists and educators, staff nurses, faculty from the School of Nursing, and representatives from clinical services such as respiratory therapy, that together with nursing provides care to patients. Among its many responsibilities, the RPC coordinates monthly Nursing Grand Rounds, reviews Nursing research proposals, and assists in evaluating the impact of evidence-based practice changes on clinical practice.
