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The University of Rochester School of Nursing Strategic Plan

Goals Advance the state of the science and translation of evidence concerning health promotion, human responses to illness, and outcomes of care delivery. Create innovative environments that promote the recruitment, retention, and productivity of the best scientists, faculty, students, and nursing staff. Foster entrepreneurship that advances science in the marketplace of new, cost-effective models of care and creative professional enterprises. Maintain national leadership in transforming nursing practice.

Over the last decade, the school has undergone a renaissance, implementing the goals of its last strategic plan to emerge from the brink of financial crisis to renewed prominence. The school has risen in the national rankings, gained a competitive edge in the educational marketplace, and been recognized internationally for innovative entrepreneurial enterprises and practice partnerships. Strategic planning also led to renovation projects and the first expansion in the school’s history.

Under the leadership of Dean Patricia Chiverton, the school has grown its program offerings to attract a larger and more diverse student body, added more top research faculty, extended its doctoral degree program to disciplines outside of nursing and expanded its impact in the local Rochester community through the health and wellness services of its Center for Nursing Entrepreneurship. 

Building on this success, the visionary 2007-2012 Strategic Plan seeks to maintain the school’s leadership in the advancement of the unification of nursing education, practice and research. The plan establishes goals in key areas of importance including research advancement, creating innovative workplace environments to promote recruitment and retention, fostering nursing entrepreneurship and transforming nursing practice with a new Doctor of Nursing Practice degree.

The school is also in the process of searching for its next dean as Chiverton steps down at the end of the academic year to transition fully into her role as the University’s first Pamela York Klainer Endowed Chair in Nursing Entrepreneurship. 

Click here to read an executive summary of the plan.