STRATEGIC PLAN
PRIORITIES & OBJECTIVES: 2017-2020
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ALIGNMENT We stand proud as part of the premier academic health science
VISION Innovative leaders transforming health
center in a progressive health system, located in one of the leading diverse universities in the nation — the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). In keeping with our long-standing commitment of collaboration across the university’s tripartite missions of teaching, research and service, our Strategic Plan has exciting synergy with UAB’s vision to be a world-renowned
MISSION The UAB School of Nursing, as part of a research university and academic health center, shapes patient-centered health care by preparing recognized nurse leaders who excel as clinicians, researchers, and educators, in Alabama, nationally and internationally.
research university and medical center — a first choice for education and health care, the IOM’s Future of Nursing Report and the Academic Medical Center of the 21st Century (AMC21), the Strategic Plan for UAB Medicine.
CORE VALUES Excellence Caring Innovation Collaboration Diversity Integrity Communication
STRATEGIC GOALS
INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS
SUSTAINABLE SCHOLARSHIP
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Leading evidence-based education, practice, research and service
Leading the discovery of knowledge that translates into better health and quality of life
Developing and stewarding our assets to achieve strategic priorities
COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP
Transforming health, health policy and health care delivery through partnerships
Impacting health outcomes locally and globally
INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS Strategic Goals: Leading evidence-based education, practice, research and service The UAB School of Nursing (SON) consistently ranks among the
top 5% of nursing schools nationally by US. News and World Report for its pioneering hybrid graduate specialty programs. Similarly, the SON is the leading producer of baccalaureate, master's and doctoral-degree nurses in Alabama and the Southeast.
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES Support excellence in student and program outcomes through implementation of innovative programs • Enhance leadership focus in all academic programs through integration of innovative learning activities that engage students in working effectively with faculty as leaders and team members • Enhance interprofessional education opportunities for students in all programs • Integrate education and training on emerging trends and technologies into clinical programs • Enhance genetics/genomics content in program curricula to improve student outcomes • Enhance concepts of diversity and inclusiveness in all program curricula to improve student outcomes • Integrate learning experiences focused on rural and underserved populations and veteran-centric initiatives
Develop and implement leading-edge signature programs that are recognized as program of choice to meet the changing needs of the health care system • Identify and implement programs of study for emerging specialties/subspecialties that are/will be in demand for the evolving health care systems
• Implement a new model of health system leadership curriculum to better meet the needs of today’s health systems • Graduate nurses with the knowledge and skills to use, evaluate, manage and design health information technology • Raise national rankings for MSN and DNP programs, and advanced practice specialty tracks.
Support faculty excellence in implementing innovative programs • Develop and implement strategies to support and recognize faculty excellence in teaching • Achieve NLN Center of Excellence designation • Promote CNE certification as a recognition for teaching excellence • Provide faculty with advanced technological programmatic resources
Achieve and maintain optimum level of student enrollment according to yearly goals • Achieve and maintain recruitment, enrollment and retention benchmarks in all programs • Increase enrollment to meet targets in select programs • Increase/maintain academic, financial and other support to promote student success • Increase/maintain talent pool of qualified applicants for all programs
SUSTAINABLE SCHOLARSHIP Strategic Goals: Leading the discovery of knowledge that translates into better health and quality of life In the past five years, our sustained scholarship has increased to more than $9 million annually. While funding has grown substantially, the complexity of health care demands that we discover and apply the best evidence-based nursing from bench to bedside and community.
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES Move SON to the top 20 NIH-funded Schools of Nursing • Increase SON awards to sustain more than $2.8 million NIH research dollars awarded by 2020 • Grow a diversified portfolio
Support the research mission through recruitment and retention of funded faculty • Leverage existing endowed chairs and professorships for recruitment and retention • Continue to recruit and retain funded faculty
Strengthen collaborative and interprofessional research programs • Sustain funded research through supportive resources • Increase Global and UWIRC collaborations • Leverage and develop patient-centered clinical system research collaborations with UAB, UAB-related entities and other Birmingham healthcare providers
Support scholarship activities of faculty for all missions • Improve the quality and number of faculty publications and grant submissions • Leverage faculty expertise in clinical and educational technology to expand research and scholarship partnerships • Enhance research, practice and teaching mentorship competence of faculty
Demonstrate excellence in doctoral program outcomes • Ensure that all PhD students are actively engaged in research with research faculty • Ensure that all PhD students meet program benchmarks and timelines and increase the number of PhD students actively engaged with research faculty • Implement seamless transition in research faculty/student mentorship for BSN to PhD, MSN to PhD and DNP to PhD students • Investigate opportunities for DNP and PhD program synergy by creating collaborative relationships between PhD and DNP faculty for translational research
VALUABLE RESOURCES Strategic Goals: Developing and stewarding our assets to achieve strategic priorities Donors make critical investments in our undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, facility improvements and special collections. We have grown our resources strategically to continue excellence and leadership in education, research, scholarship and service to facilitate stewardship among stakeholders. And, our interactions with collaborative partners — including UAB Hospital — contribute to the development of our most treasured resources: students, faculty, staff, alumni, boards and community.
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES Enhance and expand the resources to support $32 million SON building • Enhance and expand SON building with $17 million in philanthropic funding • Enhance new SON building with $4 million in grant and philanthropic funding to outfit clinical and educational technology and equipment
Increase funding to support research, education and partnership missions • Secure funding for collaborative space across missions for faculty and their teams, doctoral students and post-doctoral research fellows • Increase technology and telehealth funding
Increase endowed funds, sponsored scholarships and program support funds • Increase funding to competitively recruit and retain faculty scholars with research that strategically aligns with the University • Provide scholarships for graduate and undergraduate nursing students to address the projected faculty and primary care shortages in Alabama and the southern region
Secure funding to support global initiatives • Secure gifts and pledges to build programming for the Florence Nightingale Letters project • Develop sustained funding sources to increase activities of the three missions addressing health initiatives in rural and underserved communities
Engage and recognize alumni to build mutually beneficial relationships • Increase School advocacy, involvement and support among alumni base, with a special emphasis on young alumni • Increase alumni giving to annual fund and Campaign priorities
Engage faculty and staff in a sustained culture of leadership and excellence • Recruit and retain diverse faculty and staff to support the missions of the School of Nursing • Create opportunities for faculty and staff to participate in professional, leadership, and skill-building activities • Promote a nurturing environment of civility, diversity, inclusivity and equity • Formalize a process for leadership development for minority and male faculty and staff
COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS Strategic Goals: Transforming health, health policy and health care delivery through partnerships The School has consistently been awarded HRSA and other extramural funding to help transform healthcare in the state of Alabama. Using our collective experience, we create partnerships to advance interprofessional teaching, research and service that broaden students and faculty, opening opportunities for collaborative programs, shared resources, faculty practice, care redesign, professional development, global partnerships, and delivering care to underserved populations.
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES Continue to grow faculty practice opportunities with an emphasis on sustained, team-based, collaborative models and the growing need for primary, chronic and transitional care • Provide a supportive infrastructure to grow, monitor and evaluate sustainable faculty practices • Generate revenues that support partnerships with UAB Hospital and Health System promoting primary care and chronic and transitional care management
Expand partnerships with community colleges, hospitals, public health and other community health care agencies to develop a nursing workforce across all levels • Advance career mobility by partnering with rural hospitals and community-based clinical agencies to recruit interested nurses into RN Mobility, BSN, AMNP, MSN, DNP and PhD programs • Recruit students into GNEPCS and other funded initiatives in order to produce more primary care nurse practitioners for practice in rural and underserved areas of Alabama
Grow and develop partnership opportunities with UAB Hospital/Health System, Children’s of Alabama, the Birmingham VA Medical Center, and other health care and community organizations • Develop post-graduate residency programs with UAB Health System and other partners • Leverage faculty expertise in collaboration with the academic health science center and community partners • Strategically create and align initiatives to place faculty and students in Alabama communities where the need exists • Develop telehealth initiatives to address critical Alabama health deficits and disparities in rural and underserved communities
Lead partnerships with rural and underserved communities to improve health outcomes • Sustain and grow the interprofessional collaborative practice model to support the PATH Clinic and Heart Failure Clinic • Establish new partnership(s) for ongoing sustainability of the UAB Medical Clinic at the Foundry • Strategically create and align initiatives to place faculty and students in Alabama communities where the need exists • Develop telehealth initiatives to address critical Alabama health deficits and disparities in rural and underserved communities
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP Strategic Goals: Setting the trends as a global leader in nursing, health and health care Our school's leadership stretches from Birmingham, throughout Alabama and the Southeast, to the national level and to international sites such as Latin America and Africa, where we partner to build nursing capacity and develop knowledge to improve health and well-being. The need for nursing leaders to help forge creative change to advance health locally and globally remains a high priority need.
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES Lead global efforts to improve health care by increasing the quantity, diversity, distribution and quality of the nursing workforce • Adopt mutually agreed upon operational definitions for global health and global health leadership • Strategically lead at international, national and regional levels in the preparation of diverse nurse clinicians, leaders, faculty and scientists • Sustain international partnerships for education, training and research • Expand the Peace Corp Fellows Program for AMNP students
Sustain global partnerships to develop knowledge and build nursing capacity in order to achieve Sustainable Development Goal #3 “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages” (UN General Assembly, 2015) • Increase exposure to global health experiences for all undergraduate and graduate students to ensure global health competency • Promote interprofessional global health experiences • Promote and recruit nursing and health professionals using the concepts of Florence Nightingale
Sustain the UAB SON PAHO/WHOCC signature program • Develop the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for International Nursing based on 2015 – 2019 re-designation priorities and terms of reference • Collaborate with other World Health Organization Collaborating Centers worldwide
UAB SCHOOL OF NURSING
Growth & impact SUSTAINABLE SCHOLARSHIP • SINCE 2008, OVERALL GRANT FUNDING HAS INCREASED BY MORE THAN 160%
$9.7 M 2016-2017 GRANT TOTAL FUNDING
• RANKED 23rd IN NIH FUNDING BY THE BLUE RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
VALUABLE RESOURCES FACULTY MEMBERS
+100%
PRACTICE IMPACT
[GROWTH SINCE 2005]
TOTAL STUDENTS
GRADUATE STUDENTS
+200%
+300%
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NURSING ADMINISTRATION
GRADUATE PROGRAM RANKING AMONG NURSING SCHOOLS
U.S. News & World Report
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#6
2018
DEGREE PROGRAMS
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ADULT ACUTE NURSE PRACTITIONER
16
15
DOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICE
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ONLINE GRADUATE PROGRAMS
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ONLINE GRADUATE PROGRAMS FOR VETERANS
GRADUATE SPECIALTY PROGRAMS
UAB School of Nursing uab.edu/nursing
We prepare nurse leaders to excel as clinicians,
Centers & Outreach
•The Office of Research and Scholarship oversees
researchers and educators by discovering and applying
funded studies in the areas of oncology,
the latest research to promote the highest quality
pediatrics, minority health, international nursing,
patient care. This nationally ranked school known for its innovative programs, which include
HIV/AIDS care, occupational health and aging and palliative care.
•The nurse-managed PATH Clinic provides
the state’s only Ph.D. in nursing, a doctor of nursing practice (DNP) degree,
primary care, management of diabetes
with BSN, MSN and nurse anesthesia entry options bachelor’s (BSN) degree,
and other chronic illnesses, referral and
RN-to-BSN/MSN, more than 15 specialty nurse practitioner tracks, dual degree
education to under-served patients in an
options, advanced nursing executive majors in administration and informatics,
interprofessional setting; the nurse-managed
clinical nurse leader, and an accelerated master’s in nursing pathway program
HRSA Heart Failure Clinic, a partnership
for students who already have one degree. As part of UAB’s health academic
between the School and UAB Hospital,
health science center, students have access to the latest learning systems,
provides interprofessional transitional care for
team and clinical simulation training plus interprofessional clinical and research
heart failure patients recently discharged from
opportunities on campus and across the globe.
UAB Hospital
•The school is well-known for its hybrid graduate Enrollment, as of Fall 2016 Undergraduate: 582
specialty nurse practitioner and administrative programs that are tailored to meet the changing workforce and health care needs.
Graduate: 1684
Accreditation
Accomplishments & Rankings
•Ranked No. 13 in overall graduate programs
The School of Nursing is accredited by the from the Commission on
— among the top 5 percent of nursing
Collegiate Nursing Education for its baccalaureate, master’s programs and
schools nationwide — by U.S. News and
Doctor of Nursing Practice programs. The Nurse Anesthesia DNP also
World Report
is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Programs. The PhD program is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Dean Doreen C. Harper, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean and Fay B. Ireland Endowed Chair in Nursing, is nationally known for her expertise in nursing and nurse practitioner education, health policy, nursing workforce development and advancement of inter-professional education.
•Designated a Pan America Health Organization/WHO Collaborating Center on International Nursing since 1993
•One of the nation's top VA Nursing Academic Partnerships with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
uab.edu/nursing