Leadership, Systems, Informatics and Policy Cooperative

Although the specific areas of expertise may seem disparate, in fact, members have collaborated on many projects and have found great commonalities in our philosophical approaches to addressing the three missions of the school and the University of Minnesota. We believe that the synergy that comes from working together co-operatively will create a professional learning community that will succeed in answering questions that each of us alone could not answer. Indeed, the questions about how to develop leadership in our students and faculty and about how to affect policy to improve health care for society generally require many perspectives and sound knowledge of the evidence that exists to date. It also requires the ability to think creatively to design new approaches and to test these models using sound methods. Our members have come together to address these issues and have found commonality in our quest to discover new knowledge about the some of the following issues:

• Systems: health care delivery, educational, other
• Quality of health outcomes
• Policy initiatives: informatics, nursing/other health interventions
• Scholarship as defined by Boyer, including scholarship of teaching and learning
• Redefining leadership in the School of Nursing across programs

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