Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals
Mission
The Elaine Marieb College of Nursing advances nursing education, practice, and research to promote health and health equity.
Vision
EMCON community-members leading and transforming healthcare delivery, patient care, and equity in service to the wellbeing of all.
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
Social Justice
The Elaine Marieb College of Nursing Committee on Diversity and Social Justice strives to facilitate and foster an appreciation of diversity within the UMass Nursing community and beyond. Within the College, these efforts encourage students, faculty, and staff to share a greater appreciation and understanding of the value of cultural and ethnic diversity.
When applied within the context of nursing, respect for one another's varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences can improve the overall standard of care and well-being of patients. The committee aims to incorporate this concept of social justice into the Nursing curriculum by acknowledging differences in personal and healthcare needs and promoting inclusion.