Graduate-Level Nursing Degree Programs

Hosted by the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, the proposed Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership degree programs will open to the first cohorts of doctoral and master's degree students in fall 2010, pending programs' approval. 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 Nursing, Medicine, Health Informatics, Nutrition, Biostatistics, Public Health, Law and other fields. The doctoral program prepares graduates as health-care and health policy leaders and nurse faculty/researchers at the university level. Master's degree program graduates will be well prepared for health-care leadership roles in a variety of organizations and as nurse faculty at the community college level.

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.

Research and education at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing emphasizes Healthy Systems and Healthy People:

With the vision of 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. Faculty, postdoctoral fellows and students discover and share knowledge to analyze, shape, redesign and evaluate health systems.

Research for Healthy People includes community health, public health, epidemiology, gerontology, rural health and health disparities to promote health for individuals, families and populations in partnership with communities and with an emphasis on aging, rural and diverse populations. The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing discovers and share knowledge on the priorities and needs of population subgroups as well as tailors and tests approaches to advance health in those groups.