Mission
The mission of the College of Nursing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis is to transform lives by fostering a vibrant community of compassionate and inspired nurses. We develop nurses from diverse backgrounds who are dedicated to the pursuit of excellence and leadership through innovative baccalaureate and graduate programs. We engage community partners to respond to the needs of the communities we serve. We generate, translate, and disseminate new knowledge into practice that advances healthcare globally.
Vision
The vision of the College of Nursing will be comprised of top-ranked educational programs that shape the future of nursing and healthcare in our community and globally, inspiring excellence in education, research, and scholarship, practice, policymaking, and service for the health and well-being of all.
Core Values
The core values of the College of Nursing are committed to the highest standards of ethical behavior and exemplary performance in education, research and scholarship, policymaking, service, and patient care by providing professional interactions that demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, and advocacy for others through Trust, Inclusion, Innovation, Access, Success, Engagement.
Trust: Our foundation
We build trust through goodwill, transparency, accountability, integrity, and positive outcomes for our department, university, and the community. We foster trust with students, colleagues, and the community through respectful interactions, clear expectations, and ethical research and evidence-based pursuits.
Access: Our challenge and our promise
We believe that a learning environment free from any barriers for any one person makes that environment better for all people, through our classrooms, our campus, our research, our creativity, our service to the community.
Inclusion: Our guiding principle
We strive to affirm the uniqueness and differences among persons, ideas, values, and ethnicities by being present, persistent, passionate, and proactive towards justice and equity for all, asserting we are better together.
Success: Our greatest commitment
We are committed to meeting our campus community members wherever they are, to inspiring and empowering them to meet their goals, breaking through their barriers, and defining and achieving what success means for them.
Innovation: Our driving force for transformation
We research and develop new and creative approaches and services for the ever-changing needs in healthcare. Modeling through effective and inclusive shared governance principles.
Engagement: Our consistent, steadfast action
We embrace wisdom and shared resources to forge partnerships-locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, within the community-that are built in the spirit of collaboration.
