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School of Nursing University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA  94143-0606

Leadership

Marylin Dodd, RN, PhD, FAAN, Director, Research Center

Kathryn Lee, RN, PHD, FAAN, Director, Research Training Program

Virginia Carrieri, RN, DNS, FAAN, Co-Director, Research Training Program

The goal of the Research Center for Symptom Management (RCSM) is to advance the knowledge in the field of symptom management and, thereby, improve health care providers' practice and individuals' symptom outcomes.

Symptoms are the most common reason people seek health care. Symptoms are a major problem for individuals and their families since their management and resulting outcomes are often their own responsibility. Many people wonder if they are "doing the right thing" and if their symptom management strategies are appropriate.

If symptom control is not achieved, frequently individuals' valued activities are disrupted and their quality of life adversely affected. At the same time, health care providers have difficulty developing symptom management strategies that can be applied in the acute care, ambulatory care, and home care settings because there are few tested models of symptom management.

SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT MODEL

The overall aims of the RCSM are to:

1. Develop the subdiscipline of symptom management across health science disciplines and across health care settings by elucidating and testing a Model of Symptom Management;
2. Improve individuals' health status, by decreasing symptom morbidity and thereby enhance their quality of life, with particular emphasis on specific cultural and ethnic groups;
3. Prepare scientists in Nursing and other disciplines by interdisciplinary training in the area of symptom management; and
4. Create mechanisms for synergy, cooperation, and collaboration among interdisciplinary clinical investigators working in the area of symptom management.

The immediate strategies to achieve these aims are to:

1. establish the organizational unit of administrative, support, and research development and dissemination cores;
2. to formally link clinical research efforts in symptom management; and
3. to provide accessible central resources to RCSM affiliated faculty.

For more information about the RCSM:

• Contact:  Elfrieda O'Neill
• Telephone:  415-514-1516
  
• Email:  elfrieda.oneill@nursing.ucsf.edu

RCSM Faculty Contacts

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