UC Davis anticipates admitting its first students in master’s and doctoral programs to the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing in the fall of 2008.
New nursing school and school of public health envisioned
California’s health care horizon is looking a lot brighter as UC Davis advances plans to establish a new nursing school and a new school of public health, fulfilling its vision of improving the health and health care of citizens in California and beyond. These professional schools will add to the university’s already robust programs in the schools of medicine and veterinary medicine and will draw on faculty from across the campus.
Thanks to a landmark $100 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, UC Davis is planning to launch a professional nursing school that will emphasize leadership, scientific rigor and multidisciplinary training. The goal is to graduate nursing leaders, educators and researchers who will make positive, long-term impacts on health care in California and throughout the nation.
“We are most grateful to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for partnering with UC Davis to help us take the first step toward realizing our long-held vision to expand our education of health care leaders,” said UC Davis Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef.
Pending approval by UC and state officials, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing will welcome its first students to master’s and doctoral programs in the fall of 2008. Eventually the school will enroll 456 students.
Meanwhile, in the arena of public health — the profession that focuses on the health and well-being of entire communities and populations rather than individual patients — UC Davis’ proposal to establish a school of public health has progressed to the UC Office of the President and UC Academic Senate for consideration.
Students who graduate with bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in public health will be equipped to tackle a broad range of problems — including obesity, infectious disease, environmental hazards and natural disasters — and to advise on the organization and financing of health-services organizations.
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UC Davis Health System receives $8.17 million land gift for new facilities
A real estate development firm whose major partners include five prominent Sacramento-area families donated 15 acres of undeveloped land located in Rocklin, Calif., and valued at $8.17 million. The property will be used for medical facilities to serve the health-care needs of this fast-growing region of Northern California.
Kistler named president-elect of Association of California Nurse Leaders
Donna Kistler, nurse manager of the orthopaedics unit at UC Davis Medical Center, was named the president-elect of the Association of California Nurse Leaders, the nursing leadership organization that develops nurse leaders, advances professional nursing practice and promotes quality and patient safety. She will assume the role of president in 2008.
Bilingual nurse program helps patients navigate hospital system
Patients, doctors and nurses are now benefiting from the work of a new program that helps patients with limited English navigate their way through UC Davis Medical Center. Believed to be the only program of its kind in the nation, the Transcultural Linguistic Care Nurse Program offers patients access to nurses who are fluent in the top three non-English languages spoken by patients — Spanish, Russian and Hmong — and who will guide them through hospital processes from admissions to discharge.