A vision for the future

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis is founded on a vision where highly skilled and well-prepared nurses lead our national health-care system in assuring patient safety, improving quality of care and health outcomes, guiding policy decisions, and discovering knowledge to advance health.

Nurse leaders, educators, administrators, researchers and policy experts are needed to meet the challenges of our health-care system, now and in the future. Ours is a vision for today and tomorrow, a vision in which nurses lead the changes that improve health care for generations to come.

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis advances health and ignites leadership through innovative education, transformative research and bold system change.

The school cultivates academic excellence through immersive, interprofessional and interdisciplinary education and research in partnerships with the communities it serves. Faculty, staff and students discover and disseminate knowledge to advance health, improve quality of care and shape policy.

Graduates of the school will serve as educators, researchers and leaders who promote health, advance quality of care and safety, and shape policy.

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California, Davis, with founding support of $100 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, is dedicated to producing nurse leaders of the future capable of improving patient care, patient safety and health outcomes. As one of the nation's leading public research universities, UC Davis brings scientific expertise, health-care leadership, innovation in technology, collaborative team learning and a tradition of public service to the partnership. The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing vision is to create a school that will leverage UC Davis' strength in intensive and immersive interprofessional curriculum, resulting in nurse graduates who are an expansive force of change in health care. The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing aims to make positive, long-term systemic impacts in health care for all.