Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis

Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis

Education Building, Sacramento campus
UC Davis Health System
(916) 734-2145; http://nursing.ucdavis.edu

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.

The school was launched through a $100 million commitment from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the nation's largest grant for nursing education. The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing cultivates academic excellence and addresses urgent societal needs through:

• 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 Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership Graduate Degree Program.

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

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is part of the UC Davis Health System, an integrated, academic health system encompassing UC Davis School of Medicine, the 645-bed-acute-care
hospital and clinical services of UC Davis Medical Center and the 800-member physician group known as the UC Davis Medical Group. For more information, see http://nursing.ucdavis.edu.

Programs of Study

Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership

The UC Davis Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership Graduate Degree Program 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. 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. 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.

Master of Science

Master's degree students are those with experience or interest in transforming health care through nursing education and research. They want to focus on important societal health issues through the work of advancing health and improving the systems that provide health services.

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

The master's degree program is a full-time, professional degree program that prepares graduates for health-care leadership roles in a variety of organizations and as nurse faculty at the community college-level.

Some examples include:

• Leaders of health organizations and agencies-such as community clinics, trade associations, advocacy groups-improving quality of care and work environments, and advancing outcomes and health-care effectiveness and efficiency
• Community college and other prelicensure nursing faculty-teaching the next generation of nurses
• Legislative and governmental agency staff and leadership developing, influencing and implementing policy to improve access and outcomes (not limited to health agencies but other organizations that provide public infrastructure such as transportation, planning or parks and recreation)
• Careers across the health-care sector, such as insurance, pharmaceutical, hospital, home health, aging support services, adoption services, chronic illness support services and medical equipment industries fostering the integration of excellence in clinical care, management, policy, education and research

Doctor of Philosophy

Students with experience and/or interest in leading the transformation of health care through nursing education and research are sought for the Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership Doctor of Philosophy program. Ideal students want to focus on important societal health issues through the work of advancing health and improving the systems that provide health services.

Graduates of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing are prime candidates for formal leadership positions. Graduates exercise leadership through scientific approaches, vision, initiative, cultural inclusiveness, teamwork, and a commitment to assuring health care is highly effective, compassionate and accessible.

The full-time, academic doctoral program prepares graduates as leaders in health care, health policy and education/research at the university level to:

• Conduct transformative research
• Educate health professionals and researchers
• Effect system change
• Influence and implement policy
• Advance health from multiple settings

Preparing for the Study of Nursing

The Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership Graduate Degree Program 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

Applying for Admission

Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing students are admitted for fall term only. Online applications are available through the Office of Graduate Studies website at http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu.

Application deadlines and requirements vary by program and year. For more information, please see the School of Nursing website at http://nursing.ucdavis.edu or contact the School of Nursing at (916) 734-2145.

Master of Science

Admission Requirements

• Current registered nurse (R.N.) licensure
• A bachelor's degree in nursing or a related field
• A minimum undergraduate G.P.A. of 3.000
• A statement of purpose and personal-history statement, including research interests and future goals
• Three (3) letters of recommendation
• G.R.E. is not required

Degree Program Requirements

• Full-time enrollment (12 units per quarter) is required.
• Required courses for the master's degree program include a combination of core courses and electives. Six graduate-level core courses-Health Status and Care Systems, Implementation Science, Leadership in Health Care, Quantitative Skills for Change, Community Connections and an Informatics course-and the Master's Degree Seminar are required courses for the master's-degree program
• Students work with their advisers to select electives appropriate to their areas of interest
• A master's thesis is required
• Master's-degree students are expected to complete the program in five quarters. A sixth quarter option is available if needed

Doctor of Philosophy

Admission Requirements

• A minimum undergraduate G.P.A. of 3.000
• Three (3) letters of recommendation
• A statement of purpose and personal-history statement, including research interests and future goals
• The application process may require an interview
• G.R.E. is not required

Degree Program Requirements

Required courses for the doctoral program include a combination of core courses and electives. Students work with their advisers to select electives appropriate to their areas of interest.

• Full-time enrollment (12 units per quarter) is required
• Required courses for the doctoral-degree program include five graduate-level core courses-Health Status and Care Systems, Implementation Science, Leadership in Health Care, Research Design in Nursing and Health Care and an Informatics course-and the Doctoral Seminar. A series of courses in research methods is also required
• Doctoral students are required to pass an oral qualifying examination. The intent of the oral qualifying examination is to determine whether the student is adequately prepared and sufficiently intellectually independent to conduct doctoral-level research. The exam may include both an oral component as well as the student's proposal for the dissertation research
• A doctoral dissertation is required. Students will enroll in dissertation units as full-time students after the qualifying exam until the dissertation is complete
• Ph.D. students are expected to complete the program in four years

Academic Calendar

The School of Nursing operates on the traditional UC Davis campus quarter system. Core nursing courses are offered in fall, winter and spring quarters only.