Overview

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing was established in March 2009 through a $100 million commitment from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The vision for the school is to transform health care through nursing education and research. Through nursing leadership, the school will discover knowledge to advance health, quality of care and safety, and shape health policy.

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing cultivates academic excellence and addresses urgent societal needs through five core attributes:

• Leadership development—build capacity for advocacy and action at all levels.
• Interprofessional/interdisciplinary education—health professionals learn multiple perspectives to work and communicate as teams.
• Transformative research—apply the science of nursing to improve health and reshape health systems with emphasis on aging, rural health and diverse communities.
• Cultural inclusiveness—teach culturally-appropriate approaches to care and involve communities to design and conduct relevant research.
• Innovative technology—use technology to create an engaged and interactive approach to nursing education, research and practice.

The school welcomed its first classes for the Master of Science and the Doctor of Philosophy degree programs in fall 2010 through the interprofessional Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership Graduate Degree Program. Other degree programs, such as prelicensure programs, will be phased in over the coming years.

Hosted by the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, the Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership Graduate Degree Program opened to the inaugural classes of doctoral and master's degree students in fall 2010. Applications for fall 2012 graduate classes open October 2011.  

The UC Davis Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership Graduate Group prepares nurse leaders, researchers and faculty in a unique interdisciplinary and interprofessional environment. The graduate group is composed of faculty from across campus with expertise in nursing, medicine, health informatics, nutrition, biostatistics, public health and other fields. The full-time, academic, doctoral program prepares graduates as leaders in health care, health policy and nurse faculty/researchers at the university level. Graduates of the professional master’s degree program are well prepared for health-care leadership roles in a variety of organizations and as nurse faculty at the community college and prelicensure education levels.

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is ideal for students who:

• See problems in health care and think of solutions
• Want to improve health systems and advance health
• Find value in diversity of thought, belief, language and culture

The Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership program:

• Provides a rigorous program in research methods/design and translational science
• Offers flexible curricula individualized to students’ interest areas
• Ensures interdisciplinary and interprofessional teaching and learning
• Provides research and practice opportunities that encourage development of leadership skills
• Facilitates cultural inclusiveness
• Collaborates with university and community partners

Graduates of the Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership Graduate Degree Program are prepared for academic and leadership positions exercising scientific thinking, responsibility, initiative, cultural inclusiveness, knowledge of organizations and system change, teamwork, and a commitment to healthy communities.

Research and education at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing emphasize healthy systems and healthy people:

• Healthy Systems – improving health-care systems and designing policies to be effective, efficient and responsive. Research in healthy systems includes health policy, organizational change, informatics, implementation science and leadership. UC Davis will discover and share knowledge to analyze, shape, redesign and evaluate health systems.
• Healthy People – promoting health for individuals, families and populations in partnership with communities, with an emphasis on aging, rural and diverse populations.  Research for healthy people includes community health, public health, epidemiology, gerontology, rural health and health disparities. UC Davis will discover and share knowledge on the priorities and needs of population subgroups as well as tailor and test approaches to advance health in those groups.

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Click here for the Doctor of Philosophy program

Click here to meet the Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership faculty 

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