CORE ATTRIBUTES

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis cultivates academic excellence and addresses urgent societal needs through:

Leadership Development

Build capacity for advocacy and action at all levels.

Interprofessional and 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.

Fall 2019

In this issue

Dean’s Welcome

Change builds capacity, fulfills vision

New leadership

UC Davis Health leader promotes teams, embraces health care’s future

Allison Brashear joins UC Davis School of Medicine

Faculty accolades

Leadership Development

• Alumni leverage classroom connections to lead in community organizations
• A leader emerges — Nurse discovers new role serving devastated community
• School of Nursing students respond to call for help

Interprofessional Education

• Classroom on wheels — Central Valley bus tour deepens connection
• Training physician assistants in a nursing school? — Interprofessional model breaks molds, breeds success

Transformative Research

• Flying high — Former flight nurse imparts learning to students
• Online course focuses on caregiving to improve clinical interactions
• The journey of discovery — Alumna uses experiences, evidence as road map
• Value of nursing research to nursing practice
• The power of music, the gift of memory —  Research proves program reduces dementia medication, improves aggressive behavior

Cultural Inclusiveness

• Exposure to rural health care fuels provider pipeline
• Barbershop talk — African American men’s perceptions of nursing
• Invisible no more — Alliance seeks to understand family caregivers’ struggles, needs

Innovative Technology

• Active learning: A paradigm shift requires shifting priorities
• Active learning with Kem Saichaie
• Trials before errors — How virtual patients promote critical thinking success

Alumni Impact

• Engineering + Mathematics + Nursing = Person-centered care
• Classroom partners advance to clinical colleagues
• There’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘A‘-lumna

Inspired Investment

• The journey continues — The legacy of Kristin Sanborn Todd