Kathryn Grimley-Baker

Kathryn is adjunct faculty and a clinical instructor at the University of San Francisco School of Nursing and Health Professions. She brings more than 40 years of nursing experience, primarily caring for adult medical-surgical patients at Stanford Health Care, along with experience in women’s health. Her clinical background allows her to connect classroom learning with the realities of patient care.

In addition to clinical practice and teaching, Kathryn enjoys exploring nursing topics through data collection and evidence-based inquiry, with a goal of sharing findings through nursing publications. She is passionate about inspiring students to develop projects that contribute to improved patient care.

• Medical surgical nursing
• Women's health
• Writing for publication  

• Women's health
• Psychiatric nursing
• Medical surgical nursing 

• DNP, School of Nursing and Health Professions, University of San Francisco, 2014
• MSN, University of California San Francisco, 1988
• BSN, School of Nursing and Health Professions, University of San Francisco, 1980

• Registered Nurse, Stanford Health Care, 1981-2024
• Adjunct Faculty, University of San Francisco
• Nurse Practitioner, Samaritan House San Mateo
• Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, Kaiser Health Care, 1986-1987

• Stanford Medicine Health Care, "Friends of Nursing" Grant, December 2023
• University of San Francisco, Dean's Medal for Promoting Professionalism, Fall 2014
• University of San Francisco, The Distinguished Adjunct Teaching Award, May 2013

• Reflections and Lessons Learned, Nursing 2024, May 1, 2024
• Unleash Your Inner Author: Getting Published in a Professional Nursing Journal. Nursing 2023, Vol 52 (10) 36-39
• Treating depression in adults with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Nursing 2020. 50(5):18-20
• How to land a job in a nurse residency program. Nursing 2019. 49(11) :64-66
• Preventing suicides beyond psychiatric units Nursing 2018. 48 (3):59 - 61
• Ethical Implications of mandatory reporting of intimate partner violence. Creative Nursing 2014. 20(4): 254-256
• Ordinary Miracles, Chapter 37, You Never Know What Will Happen, 2006