The Cheryl Spencer Institute for Nursing Research is the first nursing program in the country to integrate theoretical and practical environmental sustainability curriculum. Through this new initiative, over 100 students identified areas within the healthcare institution where they are interning that would benefit from intervention designed to promote sustainability and savings. Many of the proposals were accepted by their employers and implemented and, in consequence, have made a tangible positive impact. The center is also the first nursing center in Israel devoted to research and located within an academic department. The Center’s main goal is to identify, examine and analyze complex issues involving nurses and nursing science, their clinical practice, and their professional evolution, as well as to develop innovative practices and health care delivery systems that increase the quality of health care services provided to the community and to the individual. To accomplish these lofty goals, the Center is ready to lead broad-based, multidisciplinary, and multi-national studies that strengthen, inform and expand the field of nursing.

The Cheryl Spencer Institute of Nursing Research mission :

• Serve as a world-class institute adopting an interdisciplinary perspective to elucidate complex issues in nursing science and leadership to promote health, wellness, and health care of individuals and communities.
• Contribute to nursing science by developing cutting edge research, theories and methodologies.
• Develop international collaborations to formulate new knowledge and perceptions on contemporary nursing and health related phenomena.