Who We Are
The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, through the Office of Research & Scholarship (ORS), is committed to a leading role in nursing and healthcare research and scholarship through diverse funding mechanisms including the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, Health Services Research Administration, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Veterans Administration Nursing Academy, and Komen for the Cure among others. Further, the School of Nursing and the ORS are committed to excellence in building collaborative partnership initiatives within the academic health science center at UAB and in establishing other innovative partnerships that advance our mission related to education, research and scholarship, and professional service/practice. Integral to all aspects of the CORS are faculty, students, and staff. Developing and supporting the next generation of nurse scientists, educators, and scholars that create and improve tomorrow is a central part of the ORS's mission.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, through the Office of Research & Scholarship (ORS), is committed to a leading role in nursing and healthcare research and scholarship through diverse funding mechanisms including the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, Health Services Research Administration, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Veterans Administration Nursing Academy, and Komen for the Cure among others. Further, the School of Nursing and the ORS are committed to excellence in building collaborative partnership initiatives within the academic health science center at UAB and in establishing other innovative partnerships that advance our mission related to education, research and scholarship, and professional service/practice. Integral to all aspects of the CORS are faculty, students, and staff. Developing and supporting the next generation of nurse scientists, educators, and scholars that create and improve tomorrow is a central part of the ORS's mission.Who We Are
The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, through the Office of Research & Scholarship (ORS), is committed to a leading role in nursing and healthcare research and scholarship
through diverse funding mechanisms including the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, Health Services Research Administration, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Veterans Administration Nursing Academy, and Komen for the Cure among others. Further, the School of Nursing and the ORS are committed to excellence in building collaborative partnership initiatives within the academic health science center at UAB and in establishing other innovative partnerships that advance our mission related to education, research and scholarship, and professional service/practice. Integral to all aspects of the CORS are faculty, students, and staff. Developing and supporting the next generation of nurse scientists, educators, and scholars that create and improve tomorrow is a central part of the ORS's mission.
What We Do
The Office of Research & Scholarship provides leadership and oversight for the following initiatives:
- Provision of a well-established and solid administrative infrastructure by which to seek out and secure funding among novice to seasoned SON investigators
- Guidance with the preparation of research proposals and submissions
- Serve as a liaison/point of contact with the UAB Office of Sponsored Research Programs and the external funding agencies
- Guidance in pre-award and post-award grant and project management
- Provide development enrichment programs to support faculty across the School's missions
Since 1979, the ORS/CNR has actively engaged in facilitating those research partnerships and continues into the present-day in by supporting our faculty as leaders in nursing research and scholarship. The SON faculty are partners in a wide scope of inter-disciplinary research including, but not limited to, interventions to improve transitional care in chronic illness, interventions to improve outcomes via health education/promotion, tele-health interventions in disease management and health promotion, reduction of obesity in children and adolescents, patient safety strategies to improve the practice environment, and partnerships for education research coordination.
Ever mindful to stay focused on our vision - to be a dynamic and innovative research leaders, the leadership and staff within the ORS strive to be responsive to the needs of our faculty and to assist in creating partnerships that results in the successful conduct of the research and to raise the quality of health care while expanding the educated nursing workforce in Alabama and worldwide.
As we look ahead to the next few years- we will be working towards fulfilling the goals of our 2012-2017 strategic plan;
- To Expand mechanisms to recognize and celebrate the scholarship of faculty, students, alumni, and partners
- Increase leadership roles of UAB Nursing faculty in UWIRCs
- Recruit and retain faculty with established programs of research
About Our School
Welcome to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing. Professional nursing continues to be a rewarding lifetime career with many opportunities for advancement. As the challenges and demands in health care intensify, the demand for an educated nursing workforce increases. Since 1950, the UAB School of Nursing has been building on a vision to sustain nursing leadership worldwide.
The UAB School of Nursing is an outstanding choice for pursuing your education as the next step in developing yourself as a nursing leader:
- The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a city campus with rich academic, health, cultural, athletic and recreational resources;
- An innovative interdisciplinary research university and world-renowned academic health center, UAB is ranked fifth in the world for its collaborative science and clinical work in the areas of medicine, nursing, dentistry, health professions, optometry and public health;
- UAB is engaged with the community in discovering and applying the latest research and evidence to promote the highest quality and best clinical care for patients and their families;
- The UAB School of Nursing is ranked 13th in overall graduate programs, among the top 5 percent of nursing schools nationwide, by U.S. News and World Report;
- The UAB School of Nursing is home to a leading research center with funded studies in oncology, pediatrics, minority health, international nursing, HIV/AIDS care, occupational health, and aging and palliative care.
The UAB School of Nursing offers innovative bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs. Among these are the state’s only PhD in Nursing degree and a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree which offers BSN, MSN and Nurse Anesthesia Pathways, more than 15 specialty and subspecialty nurse practitioner tracks, dual degree options, advanced nursing executive majors in administration and informatics, and an Accelerated Master's in Nursing Pathway (AMNP) program for students who already have one degree. Some courses are taught completely in a distance-accessible format, where students can complete course requirements without traveling to the campus and some courses have online content combined with live, on-campus sessions.
The UAB School of Nursing offers students opportunities to learn and investigate with interprofessional faculty and student teams from nursing, medicine, dentistry, health professions, public health and optometry. Students and faculty have options for substantial scholarships, fellowships and grant awards to support undergraduate and graduate study.
Through the school’s Pan American World Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for International Nursing and the Sparkman Center for Global Health, students and faculty are exposed to interdisciplinary clinical and research opportunities on UAB's campus and across the globe. Students and faculty find their work is strengthened through partnerships with one of America’s best academic health-science centers, presenting exceptional clinical resources and experiences. UAB’s nursing legacy is found in the more than 15,000 alumni who live and work throughout the United States and the world. Our graduates serve as expert clinicians, executive nurse leaders, deans and directors of nursing programs, nurse scientists, faculty, advanced-practice registered nurses, university presidents, board members and other professional leaders.
The UAB School of Nursing is committed to your success. Here you will have the opportunity to excel in professional and advanced nursing in UAB’s academic health center using the latest learning systems, as well as team andtraining
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Veterans CAN!
The UAB School of Nursing is offering a special program, Veterans Career Advancement in Nursing Program (Veterans CAN!), through the Health Research Services Administration (HRSA), to veterans who served as a LPN or medic/corpsman in the military to transition into a professional nursing career and earn a baccalaureate degree in nursing.
VA National Quality Scholars Program
The Birmingham VA Medical Center is 1 of 8 VA National Quality Scholars Program (VAQS) sites in the U.S. Pat Patrician, PhD, RN, FAAN and Carlos Estrada, MD, MS serve as senior scholars for the Birmingham site. VAQS promotes leadership in quality improvement research and emphasizes interprofessional learning. The program offers fellowships to pre and post doctoral nurses.
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