Strategic Plan: Goals and Objectives

Goal:  Educate a diverse student body to become excellent nurses and nurse scientists

Strategy 1 - Develop an innovative, inclusive, relevant, and meaningful learning environment that fosters the student’s ability to engage and collaborate.

Strategy 2 - Strengthen curricular programs to produce graduates that are uniquely prepared to anticipate and respond to the future needs of the communities they serve.

Strategy 3 - Create an education structure and governance model that support caring, collaboration and drives change.

Strategy 4 - Attain international and national stature for the DNP and PhD Programs.

Organizational Effectiveness

Goal: Provide an effective, efficient and culturally proficient infrastructure which embodies innovation, quality and professionalism to support faculty, staff and students as they fulfill the mission of the School of Nursing.

Strategy 1 - Create an effective organizational structure and governance model that supports collaboration, drives change, fosters trust, and enhances communication and cooperation.

Strategy 2 - Enhance a culture of change that fosters communication, trust and communication in all segments of the School of Nursing.

Strategy 3 - Strengthen cultural competent and proficient communications among administrators, faculty, staff, and students through partnerships with governmental, university, community, and inter-professional  organizations and  networks

Strategy 4 - Ensure a financial plan to sustain and advance the SON’s missions.

Strategy 5 - Adopt an environment of continuous quality improvement to evaluate and strategically update all classrooms and conference rooms in the School of Nursing to provide faculty and staff with state-of-the-art Instructional Technology (IT).

Goal: Engage in research to increase knowledge about health and disease and health care delivery and to commercialize discoveries beneficial to the public

Strategy 1 - Build on existing thematic research capabilities and add new thematic capabilities to enhance research collaborations among Health Science Center and other UT System institutions and advance human health with special attention to regional health care issues

Strategy 2 - Recruit and nurture the next generation of nurse scientists into the SON’s priority research themes.

Strategy 3 - Enhance and expand SON research technology and infrastructure

Strategy 4 - Maximize development and submission of applications to new funding resources being offered through CMS and other health care reform focused funding mechanisms to support T3 and T4 translational science

Strategy: Secure funding for School of Nursing Priorities

Health Care

Goal: Provide exemplary, innovative, culturally proficient nursing care to our local and global communities.

Strategy 1 - Provide compassionate and excellent nursing care to the public and community including South Texas.

Strategy 2 - Further refine sustainability model for nurse-led system of primary health care.

Strategy 3 - Finalize Faculty Practice Plan and increase faculty participation to seventy (70). 

Strategy 4 - Work with UTSA business and engineering schools for enhanced application of business and engineering principles to model

Strategy 5 - Renovate Student Health Center waiting, reception and exam rooms.

Strategy 6 - Seek accreditation/recognition.

Strategy 7 - WHO collaborating center affiliation with Case Western Reserve University is in exploratory phase.

Strategy 8 - Develop a CPR Program.