A vision for the future

The proposed 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 the University of California, Davis, will foster nursing excellence through an expansive educational model that incorporates scientific rigor and immersive, interprofessional education for its students. Its graduates will lead health-care teams that advance patient care and safety, prevent and treat disease, and improve access to and quality in an ever-changing and increasingly complex health-care system nationwide.

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California, Davis, will be a top-ranked school of nursing that graduates highly skilled, diverse, culturally competent and well prepared nurse leaders, educators and researchers who will have a positive long-term impact on health care across California and throughout the nation.

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 healthcare. The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing aims to make positive, long-term systemic impacts in health care for all.