Vision, Mission, Values, and Goals
Vision
The College of Nursing is a force for innovation, learning, and discovery in preparing culturally proficient nurses for leadership in health for a global society.
Mission
To provide affordable and accessible education to enhance health and healing through nursing leadership in teaching, scholarship, practice, and service.
Values
Caring and Collaborative Relationships
- Caring and compassion as the heart of evidence-based nursing practice
- Collaborating with clients, nurses and interdisciplinary peers to enhance health and healing
- Attending to the needs and input of vulnerable and underserved populations
Leadership
- Reducing health disparities and promoting health in a global society
- Enhancing the social conscience and professional development of all
- Environments are systems that interact with nursing practice, culture, and public policy
- Developing student identity as agents for innovation in the world
Excellence
- The reciprocal relationships among teaching, scholarship, and engagement
- Encouraging integrity and high moral character in all members of the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
- Becoming reflective practitioners to increase the authenticity of our work (Boyer, 1990)
Innovation
- Creative ways of acquiring, managing and sharing knowledge
Diversity
- Striving to design and provide culturally sensitive nursing care in a global society
- Promoting diversity in our College and in the profession
Lifelong Learning
- Arts, humanities, and sciences as a foundation for nursing education
- Learning as a dynamic, collaborative process that promotes mutual growth of students and teachers
Goals
Engagement Goals
Establish innovative scholarly engagement models that define and respond to the health of the public:
- Search for answers to the most pressing social, civic, economic and moral problems facing our profession and world today (Boyer, 1990)
- Facilitate an organizational culture of diversity that promotes collaborative partnerships, relationships, and affiliations within a global community
- Promote faculty practice, which reflects faculty expertise and needs of our communities of interest
- Promote faculty development and systematic understanding through a variety of mechanisms
- Contribute to systematic and structural improvement of the University systems
- Promote service to the underserved and vulnerable populations in our region
Teaching Goals
We prepare professional nurses by creating an innovative environment for inquiry, discovery, and learning with diverse populations:
- Ensure a flexible learner-centered environment that utilizes information technology to its highest potential to ensure collaboration and inclusiveness
- Foster the advancement of students through graduate education
- Ensure a comprehensive, cohesive curriculum which prepares students for leadership in a changing and diverse sociopolitical world
Scholarship Goals
Enhance the art and science of nursing by creating, translating, and disseminating knowledge:
- Facilitate the scholarship of discovery, integration, application, and teaching
- Foster a creative environment that supports scholarship activities
- Enhance mechanisms for interdisciplinary scholarship
