Robin Bisgaard

RN MSN

Nurse

About me

Robin Bisgaard is a nurse who cares for patients in the children's intensive care nursery. She has worked in intensive care at UCSF since 1986, including as a nurse for babies needing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) – an advanced life-support technique – and as the discharge coordinator and case manager for infants with complex medical and surgical needs.

Bisgaard has also worked in neonatal and high-risk pediatric home care, and neonatal and pediatric transport, and as a research coordinator in the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center.

Bisgaard earned a bachelor's degree in nursing at Syracuse University and a master's degree in nursing with a concentration on nursing education at the University of Phoenix. She's currently working on a PhD at the UCSF School of Nursing.

Education

Syracuse University, BS, Nursing

University of Phoenix, MS, Nursing

Where I see patients (1)

Selected research

Neonatal outcomes from a quasi-experimental clinical trial of Family Integrated Care versus Family-Centered Care for preterm infants in U.S. NICUs.
BMC pediatrics
November 2022
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Parent Readiness for Their Preterm Infant's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge.
The Journal of perinatal & neonatal nursing
February 2022
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Improving Family-Centered Care for Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Recommendations From Frontline Healthcare Professionals.
Advances in neonatal care : official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses
February 2022
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Soothing the soul

Our music therapy program nurtures patients with bedside serenades, rap workshops and more.

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