Mission, Vision, and Goals

Mission:

The mission of the College of Nursing and Health Innovation is to:

• Educate professional nurses at the baccalaureate, graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral levels using a learner-centered, life-long learning approach to provide the highest quality of healthcare to individuals, groups, and communities, as well as to effectively respond to the changing healthcare needs of society.
• Conduct cutting-edge research that positively impacts healthcare and patient outcomes across the lifespan as well as strengthens the knowledge base of the discipline to benefit the health of individuals, groups and communities.
• Provide high quality healthcare services to the community through a range of nursing activities with diverse populations in a variety of settings.
• Launch innovative programs and entrepreneurial initiatives that enhance the quality of healthcare across a variety of clinical settings.

Our mission is pursued in an environment in which students are valued for their individual strengths and diversity, supported by a faculty and staff committed to academic excellence and innovation, and in which collaboration and partnership across disciplines, with the nursing community and the community at large, are viewed as essential.

Vision:

A world renowned college known for its excellence, innovation and visionary leadership in transdisciplinary research and evidence-based:

• Interprofessional health education
• Baccalaureate, master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral education
• Culturally responsive community, worksite and clinical practice
• Healthcare policy

Goals:

• Lead innovation and transdisciplinary collaboration through all educational, research, entrepreneurial, community, worksite and clinical practice initiatives
• Provide state, national and global leadership in education, research, health promotion and policy, innovation and entrepreneurship for healthcare, community, worksite and academic institutions
• Provide outstanding learner-centered, evidence-based and innovative academic and continuing education programs that achieve national recognition
• Ensure that all students are provided with a rigorous and comprehensive core of knowledge and professional skills that provide for their future success
• Establish and sustain the College of Nursing and Health Innovation’s Centers of Excellence as national and global leaders in advancing science and promoting the highest quality of culturally responsive evidence-based healthcare services
• Sustain a healthy and diverse work environment that embraces an interprofessional culture of dreaming, discovering and delivering, and in which each person’s contributions are respected and evident