About Us
Strategic Plan Overview: 2003–2006
Mission:
To improve human health through nursing leadership
in research, education, and professional and public
service.
Vision/Defining Characteristics:
- Robust programs of research addressing critical health problems.
- Innovative
models of nursing education responsive to societal needs and
built on
partnerships and technological advances.
- Leadership at local,
regional, national, and international levels to solve critical
problems
facing nursing and health care.
- A vibrant and diverse working
and learning environment.
I. Promote research and scholarship to improve human health.
- Promote research foci in the
areas of patient-centered
nursing interventions, systems
and health policy with special
emphasis on vulnerable
populations, and nursing
education.
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Strengthen research climate
and infrastructure.
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Define and implement clear
expectations for faculty and
instructional academic staff in
regard to research and
scholarship (e.g., scholarship
of teaching, application, and
integration).
II. Advance innovative educational programs.
- Maximize teaching
effectiveness at individual and
programmatic levels.
Offer innovative academic
programs that address unmet
needs and emerging trends in
nursing and health care.
- Undertake comprehensive
review of degree programs in
light of strategic directions and
available resources.
- Improve structures and
systems for coordinating and
overseeing academic
programs.
III. Engage with the wider
community through leadership in
nursing practice and professional
and public service.
- Focus school-wide professional
and public service initiatives
consistent with research,
academic, and practice
directions.
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Extend the school’s public profile
through communication
strategies highlighting faculty,
staff, student, and alumni
achievements.
IV. Enhance the school’s
diversity of people and
perspectives, and its
effectiveness as an organization.
- Increase diversity of faculty,
staff, and students, focusing on
groups underrepresented in
the profession.
- Improve the quality of the work
and learning environment for
all.
- Implement targeted strategies
to increase organizational
effectiveness and to maintain
academic quality.
- Foster a climate of discovery
and diverse perspectives on
issues in nursing and health
care.
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