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Nurses have been the face of the front lines in the battle against COVID. Kristen Choi wants to make sure we’re taking as good care of them as they are of us.

UCLA School of Nursing Professor MarySue Heilemann, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been honored with a 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest recognition available to UCLA faculty members for teaching. 

Nurses of color say they are looking forward to action after an official apology from the nation’s largest nursing association for its history of racist practices that disenfranchised nurses of color. UCLA School of Nursing Associate Professors Kristen Choi, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Kia Skrine Jeffers, PhD, RN, PHN, recount personal experiences in this USA Today article and hope the acknowledgement from the American Nurses Association is just the start of change. 

Joyce Newman Giger, EdD, APRN-BC, FAAN, professor emerita in the UCLA School of Nursing, is one of six extraordinary nurse leaders selected as a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing. 

Each summer, students from across the country journey to UCLA for the Summer Health Professions Education Program, or SHPEP, a free enrichment program designed to improve access to information and resources for college students interested in health care.