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School of Nursing

 

Grace Hardie, RN, PhD

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Associate Professor

Office: BH 369
Phone: 415-405-0484
E-Mail: ghardie@sfsu.edu
Website: http://online.sfsu.edu/~ghardie/

Education

  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Ethnic Differences in Airway Resistance in Mild Asthmatics: Use of body plethysmography VA Medical Center, San Francisco Without compensation (WOC) appointment San Francisco, CA, 2000-2007
  • PhD, Pulmonary Physiology, Nursing, UCSF, 1997
  • MS,  Cardio-Pulmonary Clinical Nurse Specialist (PCNS), Nursing, UCSF, 1981
  • BSN, Nursing, UCSF, 1976

Teaching Interests

  • Advanced Practice Nursing Role Development - including CNS curriculum
  • Clinical Practice issues for CNS and Clinical Educators
  • Research Methodology - clinical research - quantitative
  • Physiology and Pathophysiology
  • Health disparities across the continuum of care

Research Interests

  • Asthma and symptom perception across diseases and chronic disease management
  • Ethnicity and use of word descriptors, symptom perception, and symptom presentation in mild asthmatics during induced bronchoconstriction
  • Airway resistance, based on ethnicity, during methacholine challenges correlated with symptom and word descriptors
  • Airway physiology and symptom presentation
  • Health disparities-access to health care and emergency services
  • End of life care - all aspects of care and support for the patient, family, and the health care community
  • Advanced practice nursing issues - clinical competency and critical thinking

Service Interests

  • Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS)-SFSU: Chair: Biomedical /Faculty Committee; committee member since 2004
  • Health disparities - access to health care for underserved populations; consultant Valencia Health Services, Mission District in San Francisco
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School of Nursing - San Francisco State University

1600 Holloway Ave - BH 357, San Francisco, CA 94132-1722

Phone: 1.415.338.1802 - Fax: 1.415.338.0555 - Email: nursing@sfsu.edu
Office Hours: 9am to 5pm, Mon-Fri