About the School - School Facts: Mission Statement

School Facts: Mission Statement

The University of Washington School of Nursing is a top-ranked component of a research university with an academic health center; a world-class school with global and local partners; and part of a three-campus university accountable to a state with pressing problems in access to education and health care. Our missions are closely related to each of these environments and each simultaneously influences our ability to promote excellence in all we do. At the beginning of a new century, the School's overarching goals are to address the challenges presented by the health care environment and to promote excellence in teaching, research, and service.

The School of Nursing's mission is to:

advance and preserve knowledge about human health ecology, including human responses to health and illness of individuals, families, groups, and communities; environments which do and do not support health; and interventions to improve health;
disseminate knowledge by educating the public and professionals through strategies that include and engage diverse learners; and
provide service that promotes the health and well-being of diverse individuals, families, communities, populations, and systems.

Strategic Plan Goals for the School of Nursing, 2005-2010

Educate future leaders to provide innovative, high quality, accessible academic programs at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels
Promote outstanding research scholarship that focuses on solving some of the most challenging problems in health care and can impact practice
Advance faculty practice opportunities consonant with a research-intensive university
Provide leadership within the University and in the community at the national and international level through activities that exemplify collaborative and planned processes
Promote global involvement of our students, faculty, staff, and international students and visitors
Enhance the quality of faculty, staff and student worklife through the development of an infrastructure that supports and sustains healthful and productive social and physical environments. Worklife should be characterized by a balance between collective and individual academic goals
Champion the integration of diversity concerns in all aspects of the School's work

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