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Audrey Lyndon, RNC, PhD, CNS
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Family Health Care Nursing
2 Koret Way, Room #N-405Q
San Francisco, CA 94143-0606
Telephone: 415-476-4620
Email: audrey.lyndon@nursing.ucsf.edu
My program of research concerns patient safety in inpatient perinatal care. The specific focus of my dissertation study was the question of what drives nurse agency for safety. Problems with communication and teamwork have been identified as a central component of most preventable adverse events in perinatal care.
The literature has made it very clear in the past ten years that poor communication and poor teamwork result in significant harm to mothers and babies, and teamwork needs to improve. Work integrating organizational accident theory with observations of high reliability organizations has identified assertive communication as "the" key to safe operations in perinatal care, yet little is known about clinicians' perspectives on the use of assertive communication or what clinicians perceive as facilitators of and barriers to providing safe care.
I am currently studying the role of communication, assertion, and teamwork in safety for inpatient obstetric care in teaching and community hospital settings, and developing a survey for investigating the determinants of providers' propensity to speak up in concerning clinical situations.
I have also been involved in a study with Dr. Holly Kennedy on tensions and teamwork between midwives and nurses in an urban hospital, and a study with Dr. Kathleen Rice Simpson on conflict resolution between nurses and physicians during labor and birth.
My clinical background is in labor and delivery nursing and perinatal clinical nurse specialist advanced practice. My clinical and teaching areas of interest include women's health, perinatal nursing, patient safety, high risk obstetrics, fetal monitoring, perinatal loss, breastfeeding, and family-centered maternity care.
Currently I am teaching in N147 Childbearing Families, N262 Perinatal Research Utilization, and participating in N229 Philosophy of Science. I also advise and work closely with students in the Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist Program.
B. A., Biology and Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Master's Entry Program in Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
M. S., Nursing, Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist, University of California, San Francisco
Ph. D., Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
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