The Center for Nursing Research & Innovation

Mission & Vision

Vision

The Center for Nursing Research & Innovation will catalyze, synergize and optimize patient safety, nurse staffing effectiveness and strategic performance improvement through evidence-based practice and innovations emerging from an unprecedented partnership between the UCSF Medical Center, UCSF School of Nursing, Stanford University Medical Center, and Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.

Mission

The mission of the Center for Nursing Research & Innovation is to enhance nursing practice and patient safety through high quality, effective patient care.

To achieve this mission the Center will:

• Foster workplace environments that optimize patient safety and nurse staffing effectiveness through professional role development, interdisciplinary collaboration, clinical practice integrity and quality patient care.
• Strengthen the scientific validity and effectiveness of patient care practices.
• Facilitate research by bridging the gap between nursing's research, education and clinical practice enterprises through fostering a spirit of inquiry, expediting the transfer of new knowledge into practice, coordinating clinical research resources, promoting studies that are aligned with strategic improvement priorities, and linking investigators with clinical sites.
• Foster capacity to interpret, apply and conduct research that improves patient care safety, quality, cost and outcomes through supporting investigative role development among clinical staff and their leadership teams.
• Provide consultation and education to individuals, teams and groups that contributes to improving nursing practice, patient care and organizational performance.
• Conduct clinical evaluations of emerging technologies that advance strategic performance improvement.
• Serve as a source for emerging new knowledge for nursing practice, innovation transfer, clinical practice guidelines and best practices.
• Pursue interdisciplinary, interinstitution collaboration in regional, statewide, national and international projects and studies that are aligned with the Center's mission and advance the Center's efforts.

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