Lucero Receives Grant to Partner with UF Health

Lucero, Robert-webAssociate Professor Robert Lucero, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.,  will direct a project funded by the  UF Health Shands Board Quasi Endowment Fund for 2016. The project is Strengthening the UF Health Nursing Academic Partnership Phase III: Generating Practice-based Evidence for Quality Improvement.

The purpose of this project is to extend the mutual collaborative experience by bringing together UF Health nursing staff, nurse managers, Office of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety, and UF College of Nursing research and clinical faculty. The project draws on existing relationships between nursing staff, management, and faculty who are focused in their practice and research on improving the quality of nursing care and patient outcomes.