Vision, Mission, Values, and Goals for the School of Nursing
Vision
The School of Nursing is an intellectual community that strives for innovation and excellence within education, scholarship, and practice in family and societal nursing.
Mission
The mission of the School of Nursing is to influence health care for the individual, family, and society through the advancement of nursing science, the promotion of clinical scholarship, and innovative education of practitioners and clinical leaders.
Statements of Values
As a School of Nursing we value the individual, the family, and society, innovation and excellence, empowerment and social justice, and the discipline of nursing.
- Facilitate health and healing of individuals, families, and society by integrating evidence, clinical reasoning, interprofessional perspectives, and client value preferences in providing nursing care.
- Provide quality and compassionate health care to individuals, families, and society within a dynamic environment.
- Focus on development, validation, and dissemination of nursing practice models that attend to the unique nature of individuals, families, and society.
- Support the scholarship of nursing practice with emphasis on advancing family and societal health and healing.
- Provide leadership in the development of educational models and policies to improve family and societal nursing within a global health context.
- Support individual, family, and societal health as the central purpose for the nursing discipline.
- Recognize and embrace the importance of change, creativity, courage, flexibility, inquisitiveness, and perseverance in our journey toward excellence.
- Value the use of simulation, technologies, information, and communication systems in supporting safe quality nursing practice.
- Create a culture of safety and promote quality initiatives by anticipating and responding to changing issues and trends influencing policies and practices in health care.
- Promote experiential learning through a variety of pedagogical approaches.
- Support the work of the Glen Taylor Nursing Institute for Family and Society and the International Family Nursing Association (IFNA).
- Exemplify personal and professional accountability by modeling nursing values and standards.
- Respect variations and complexity of care across the continuum of health care environments and allocation of resources in caring for all.
- Demonstrate tolerance for uncertainty within the world and its effect on health care.
- Enhance the quality of health for all people.
- Integrate knowledge of health care, policy, finance, and regulatory environments to enhance political awareness, fiscal responsibility, and advocacy for social justice.
- Strive for ethical decision-making in the application of social justice.
- Provide a scientific basis for nursing actions that guides practice to support family and societal health.
- Advance the discipline by developing and disseminating knowledge that enhances nursing scholarship and the quality of health for all people.
- Use philosophical foundations to reflect values and beliefs that support family and societal health.
- Incorporate the pattern of knowing to promote individual, family, and societal health.
- Utilize evidence based practice to promote individual, family, and societal health.
- Disseminate paradigms and products of inquiry that promote family and societal health.
Theme 1: Serving students, managing enrollment
- Expand graduate program offerings to include preparation as a nurse educator and as a nurse leader.
- Expand prelicensure nursing student enrollment.
- Expand RN-BS completion student enrollment.
Theme 2: Focusing our resources
- Provide service-learning experiences in nursing education in the community.
- Explore Interprofessional teaching relationships with other university departments.
- Expand use of the Maverick Family Nursing Simulation Center.
- Maintain existing and grow additional long-standing clinical partnerships to support learning, practice, and scholarship.
- Expand marketing and partnerships to provide seamless transition from associate to baccalaureate education and baccalaureate to graduate education.
- Explore non-nursing faculty teaching credits in programs.
- Support the Health Commons at Pond as a clinical site for students.
Theme 3: Offering an exceptional student experience
- Implement and evaluate competency-based education in undergraduate and graduate curricula.
- Increase global competence through didactic and experiential learning.
- Maintain currency with technological advances in nursing and education.
- Lead in teaching, practicing, and researching family and societal focused nursing care, supported by the Glen Taylor Nursing Institute for Family and Society.
- Examine program offerings for responsiveness to current and future needs of the nursing workforce.
Theme 4: Caring for the health and well-being of our educational community
- Cultivate an environment that embodies the School of Nursing's values of the individual, family, and society through innovation and excellence, empowerment and social justice, and the discipline of nursing.
- Support faculty members' scholarly and pedagogical development.
- Actively pursue funding opportunities to support teaching, scholarship, and technology.
- Develop a faculty mentoring guidebook.
Theme 5: Ensuring a welcoming, equitable, and inclusive university
- Implement holistic admission processes in all programs.
- Expand diversity in all programs and among faculty to match the population demographics in the state of MN.
- Create a safe environment that respects diverse values, beliefs, thoughts, and practices.
- Develop a marketing and public relations plan for the School of Nursing.
