FACULTY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
With a growing research and innovation enterprise, the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing is an environment for inquiry, new discoveries, imagination, and collegiality where interprofessional collaboration is encouraged.
Who We Are
Our community of scholars reflects the College’s mission and commitment to social justice. We also embody Villanova University’s institutional interdependence of teaching, research and scholarship as a Carnegie-classified doctoral university.
We are committed to inspiring each other to ignite change.
Impact of Unique Partnerships
With the support of the Office of Nursing Research and Innovation, our doctorally prepared faculty conduct research and lead innovative projects, meeting societal needs and establishing standards. Some of this work is done through our research interest groups—the Family Research Group (FRG), the Gerontology Interest Group ("The GiG"), and the Research for Equity and Justice Collective (REJC).
Through unique faculty-student partnerships with first-year BSN through doctoral students, these mentors and exemplars also enable the flight of the students’ spirit of inquiry.
What’s the outcome? Groundbreaking research. Next generation galvanized.
DEDICATED MENTOR,
PROLIFIC SCHOLAR
Dr. Helene Moriarty, Diane L. & Robert F. Moritz Endowed Chair in Nursing Research, a widely published scholar with a background in family systems, collaboratively advances science and practice around the complex challenges faced by veterans and their families as she engages doctoral students in research.
HALL OF FAME
RESEARCHER
Dr. Suzanne Smeltzer, Richard and Marianne Kreider Endowed Professor in Nursing for Vulnerable Populations - honored internationally as an advocate for people with disabilities and their access to quality care - has mentored countless researchers as a nurse scientist with significant impact in the field.