Audrey Lyndon, RNC, PhD, CNS
Assistant Professor, Women's Health; UCSF School of Nursing
Audrey Lyndon, RNC, PhD, CNS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Health Care at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Her clinical background is in labor and delivery nursing and perinatal clinical nurse specialist advanced practice. Dr. Lyndon received her Master’s degree from UCSF. She also completed her PhD at UCSF addressing the question of what drives nurse agency for safety, with emphasis on communication and teamwork to avoid preventable adverse events.
In her current research she continues her focus on quality improvement and patient safety in the inpatient perinatal care setting. Dr. Lyndon is investigating the role of communication, assertion, and teamwork in safety for inpatient obstetric care in teaching and community hospital settings. She is also involved in projects analyzing the tensions and teamwork between midwives and nurses, as well as conflict resolution between nurses and physicians during labor and birth. As a perinatal clinical nurse specialist she was actively engaged in major QI initiatives in both community and tertiary care settings. She continues her QI work with CMQCC as a member of the Executive Committee and Maternal Quality Improvement Panel (MQIP), where she co-chairs the Maternal Hemorrhage Task Force.
Maternal QI is important because we have historically been fairly slow to adopt evidence-based practices in maternity care in the US. Women and their families deserve nothing less than the best quality care available. I hope that as members of CQMCC we can contribute to ensuring that all California childbearing women receive the highest quality care.
CMQCC Committee Memberships
- CMQCC Executive Committee
- Maternal Quality Improvement Panel (MQIP)
- Hemorrhage Task Force
- Preeclampsia Task Force
Profile in Improvement
Learn how Audrey Lyndon applied a systematic approach with the PDCA/FOCUS model to improve induction processes at Anne Arundel Medical Center.
