School of Nursing and Health Sciences Goals

• Create, with intentionality, a caring, diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment that is responsive to individual learning needs and is based on the principles of social justice and human rights.
• Use informatics, and information and communication technology ethically to support safe, high quality, equitable healthcare processes to positively impact healthcare outcomes.
• Develop students’ core (leveled) disciplinary nursing knowledge, grounded in liberal education, integrating current evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences as the basis for clinical judgment.
• Facilitate ongoing professional identity development for academic mobility and career advancement.
• Develop and maintain academic-practice partnerships that ensure student’s clinical preparation and competency in healthcare delivery in the four spheres of care across the lifespan.
• Contribute to the improvement of access and care quality for the vulnerable, underrepresented, and medically underserved through the provision of healthcare for individuals, families, and populations across a variety of settings.
• Advocate for the profession of nursing within a global perspective.
• Foster student preparation for systems-based practice in complex systems of care.
• Advance the Scholarship of Nursing.