The Power of Nursing
To Make a Difference
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, research and education are taking place that have the power to transform our lives, our communities, our state and our world. A new building dedicated to advancing the nursing profession will demonstrate that the UW and the entire state of Wisconsin recognize and value the crucial role of nurses in 21st century health care.
The Dream
A new Nursing Science Center will serve as a cornerstone for transforming nursing practice to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities:
- enabling the school to prepare nurses for the growing complexity of health care with large, flexible classrooms equipped with cutting-edge instructional tools,
- providing a setting that takes full advantage of evolving technology for both teaching and care management with dynamic laboratories that simulate nursing environments and can adapt to changing technologies,
- creating places where students, faculty and the community can come together to collaborate, learn and share in a 250-seat auditorium and interaction space for conferences and meetings and distance technology rooms for off-site education and research programs, and
- making room to accommodate 10 additional tenure-track professors and flexible work space for an additional 30 to 40 doctoral students.
The Location
Adjacent to the UW Hospital and Clinics, Health Sciences Learning Center, Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research and the School of Pharmacy, the Nursing Health Science Center positions nursing as an integral part of UW-Madison’s world-renowned Health Science Campus.
The Goal
- To raise $20 million in private support for construction and strategic growth.
- To secure a two-thirds match for construction funds from the state legislature.
The fund reaches beyond construction to support:
- faculty recruitment and retention,
- state-of-the-art equipment purchases,
- financial support for doctoral students,
- seed-money for pilot research studies, and
- program support for educational or outreach initiatives.
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