School of Nursing Vision, Mission, Values, and Goals
Vision
The School of Nursing leads innovative and inclusive education, grounded in nursing science, to prepare compassionate professionals who advance health equity and transform care locally and globally.
Mission
The School of Nursing is committed to delivering exceptional and innovative education to prepare nurses who are highly skilled, compassionate, and culturally responsive. We provide high-quality education that develops students as practitioners, educators, and leaders who optimize health outcomes for individuals, strengthen families, and promote the well-being of diverse communities and societies.
Values
Value Tenets
We are committed to an inclusive, equitable, and student-centered learning environment reflecting the following core values:
- Individual, Family, and Society
- Innovation and Excellence
- Empowerment, Social Justice, and Civility
- The Discipline of Nursing
- Fostering compassionate, evidence-based, individual, family, and societal health.
- Integrating clinical reasoning, interprofessional collaboration, and client values into the profession and discipline of nursing practices.
- Leading educational and policy innovations that promote health equity in local and global communities.
- Embracing creativity, flexibility, and continuous improvement in a changing health-care environment.
- Fostering experiential learning and advancing best practices through research and collaboration.
- Using simulation, technology, experiential learning, and communication systems to advance education, practice, and research.
- Supporting the work of the Glen Taylor Nursing Institute for Family and Society, Maverick Family Nursing Simulation Center, Health Commons at Pond, and our global collaboration with the International Family Nursing Association (IFNA).
- Modeling integrity, accountability, kindness, and respectful communication.
- Supporting diverse identities, perspectives, and backgrounds.
- Providing a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong.
- Promoting policies that advance social justice, equitable access, and improved health for individuals, families, and society.
- Generating scientific, philosophical, and evidence-based nursing knowledge that guides practice across all settings and populations.
- Advancing scholarship and disseminating innovations that improve health outcomes.
- Upholding leadership as a shared responsibility that strengthens nursing’s contribution to society.
Goals
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
