Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership

Established in 1997, the Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership is the nation’s first university-based center dedicated to improving health care worldwide through the development and promotion of nurses as leaders. The Center is committed to helping nurses transform their thinking, partner effectively with others, and create needed change. 

Toward that end, the Center serves as a catalyst for generating new ideas; convenes leaders from nursing, other disciplines and organizations to collaborate strategically; and is charged with advancing the science and scholarship of nursing leadership. The Center is named after Katharine J. Densford, an internationally known leader and Director of the School of Nursing from 1930 to 1959.

Through events, programs, research and education, the Densford Center honors the legacy of nursing, explores current issues, and informs the future of health care policy.  About the Center provides more background about the Densford Center mission, philosophy and leadership team.

Faces of Leadership

Health care leadership for the Densford Center and the School of Nursing has an "edge" to it -- the kind that questions the status quo in search of the innovative and has an impact on the quality of care.

Left:  Ruth Lubic, addressing the 2009 Summit of Sages, and right, Clara Adams Ender, School of Nursing Alumna '69 and former Army Brigadier General.  More to come about nursing leadership.