The Center for Nursing Excellence

The primary mission of the Center for Nursing Excellence is to merge education, research, professional development and innovation to support clinical nursing practice.

The Center focuses on assuring that the best programs are in place to achieve eight important goals:

1. Support the successful transition of experience clinicians and newly licensed nurses into nursing practice and as members of an interdisciplinary team at BWH.
2. Create orientation and development programs for unlicensed staff who provide care to patients, families and support clinicians in their work.
3. Use evidence-based and innovative teaching strategies to guide teaching practices, assuring excellence in the teaching of both practicing nurses and nursing students.
4. Utilize innovations in technology to enhance patient safety, expedite the work of the clinical nurse, improve documentation processes, build simulated clinical environments for learning and seamlessly integrate these innovations for practice.
5. Establish a center for evidence based research so that nursing practice at BWH reflects the current best science, experiential learning and clinical knowledge development.
6. Promote the integration of healing and integrative care therapies into the practice of nurses.
7. Partners with colleges of nursing to discover better ways to educate
8. Develop a global health agenda based on a culturally competent approach that incorporates the roles of clinical nurses and educators to promote health, reduce disease disparities, and improve treatment outcomes.