Mission and Goals

At the School of Nursing and Health Studies, we transform lives and health care through education, research, innovation, and service across the hemisphere.

Goals


Renowned faculty/school

  • Endowed chairs
  • Faculty being recognized with national and international awards of research and/or educational/clinical excellence
  • Leaders of influential regional and national professional organizations
  • Fellows of professional academies, including AAN, AANP, AANA, AAAS, SSH, NAM
  • High-level of federally funded (e.g. NIH, HRSA) faculty
  • Strong scholarly output and citation metrics in indexed journals with both research and clinical emphasis
  • Faculty advances highlighted by news and media outlets
  • Presentations at prestigious national and international scientific and education conferences
  • Mature faculty composition
  • Faculty being invited to serve in prestigious committee (e.g. National Academies, NIH study sections)

Partnerships, relationships and community

  • Major strategic partnerships with UHealth, Jackson Health System, and other key Health Centers
  • Major strategic partnerships with community-based organizations that can result in clinical placements
  • Enhance and expand international partnerships
  • Sponsorship of high-visibility events open to community partners

Curricular innovations and aspirational to peer institutions

  • Top 15 Best School of Nursing in USNWR
  • All eligible programs maintain full accreditation
  • Strong and innovative executive and hybrid graduate programs
  • Educational programs delivered in partnership with Health Systems (e.g. UHealth)
  • International leader in healthcare simulation education
  • Innovative educational programs (e.g. 4+1, dual graduate, postgraduate certificates, master-entry licensure programs)
  • International leader in education to prevent human trafficking

Student population & school infrastructure

Academic Profile

  • Diverse student body
  • GPA median above 3.5
  • Strong graduate students (e.g. PhD students with research background, and clinical students with robust clinical experience

Individualized Student attention

  • Robust student support center
  • Robust scholarships from development and clinical/community partners
  • Maintain retention and graduation rates above 90%

Facilities & Capabilities

  • Renovate and expand classroom and research environments

Student/Alumni outcomes

  • National licensing examination pass rates exceed state and national rates and remain above 95% annually
  • Undergraduate nursing, public health, health sciences employed or accepted to graduate school within 6 months of graduation (90%)
  • Alumni are leaders in clinical practice, health systems, community, and professional organizations
  • PhD alumni are leaders in academia, research positions, and professional organizations
  • Nursing graduates are job-ready with real-world EMR (electronic medical record) experience

Distinctive and important leading edge research programs

  • NIH ranking consistently at top 10
  • Expanded research facility to accommodate research teams and research projects
  • Be a nationally recognized hub for Health Equity research
  • Robust simulation-based research and education
  • Active bio-behavioral laboratory

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