Mission, Vision and Values
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Mission
The mission of the University of Louisville School of Nursing is to prepare compassionate, practice-ready nurse leaders through innovative education, transformative inquiry, and purposeful community engagement to improve health outcomes across Kentucky and beyond.
Vision
We aspire to improve health outcomes and societal well-being through innovative practices and collaboration to advance science and deliver evidence-based, patient-centered care.
Core Values
Accountability - Professional responsibility to Nursing and society that is the foundation for our core values which are:
- Compassion - The ability to acknowledge others’ perspectives with concern for their wellbeing
- Curiosity - A strong desire to learn and to know more as a life-long learner
- Engagement - Mutual, collaborative relationships/partnerships focused on students, faculty, staff, professionals, consumers, and community stakeholders
- Integrity - Behaving in an ethical, reliable, and accountable way in personal and professional environments
- Respect - Demonstration of esteem for, or a sense of worth or value toward, others through communications and actions
- Innovation - Application of novel solutions to meet new requirements, as well as unaddressed or emerging needs