Envisioning the future of the School of Nursing
With input from faculty, staff, and students in the School of Nursing, we’ve identified these four overarching priorities to focus our planning and decision-making through 2024: Emerge as a national leader in academic innovation to transform nursing education for 21st century health care.
Be the exemplar of outcome-driven wellness and preventive health services in Upstate New York.
Objectives and Strategies • Create the business plan and organizational structure of the Center for Excellence for Academic Innovation. • Build academic innovation capacity through the creation of an innovation hub consisting of interprofessional learning communities and innovation networks. • Employ transformative teaching/learning practices. • Generate opportunities to conduct educational research and pursue external funding to advance academic innovation.
Objectives and Strategies • Expand footprint of Center for Employee Wellness and Passport Health services (organizations and individuals) improving health and well-being of our community. • Build payer and employer awareness, aligning wellness vision and commitment to include coverage of comprehensive wellness services in region. • Streamline resources to maximize program benefits and optimize efficiencies. • Reduce access barriers to wellness services for at-risk vulnerable populations, reducing health disparities and improving health literacy.
Accelerate knowledge generation and dissemination in nursing and health science from discovery to implementation. Objectives and Strategies • Solidify and strengthen research teams with a critical mass of investigators in the School of Nursing sufficient to ensure competitive status for Center and Training Grants. • Enrich and sustain a robust and diverse faculty pipeline by enhancing our doctoral and postdoctoral education programs. • Integrate research, practice, and education missions through a cutting-edge health care implementation science program.
Create a culture of wellness in which our School of Nursing community functions optimally, finds joy, and thrives. Objectives and Strategies • Collect and synthesize data from internal (URSON/URMC) stakeholders and external sources (benchmark) to inform development of a wellness plan. • Develop a wellness plan for the School of Nursing, utilizing the wellness task force and future wellness office inputs and resources. • Develop an organization structure with adequate resources to advance this work.
For a more details on the UR School of Nursing plan for the future, visit son.rochester.edu/strategic-plan.
A new look at the Unification Model It was the work of Loretta Ford, founding dean of the School of Nursing, which brought together nursing services in the University of Rochester Medical Center with nursing education and research and became a national model for other nursing schools. This Unification Model is not only a philosophical approach but an organizational structure that operationalizes the interdependence among education, research, and practice, forging a critical link between scientific discovery and improved health care outcomes. Today, the School of Nursing’s missions of education, research, and practice are realized through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our constitutional core principles of Innovate, Engage, Lead, Excel inform the creation of strategic
planning strategies, tactics, and metrics related to our four overarching goals. To reflect this new approach, we have updated our graphic of the Unification Model (at right):
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