School of Nursing

The School of Nursing educates students to transform nursing and healthcare through authentic presence, caring connections with patients, students, colleagues, and the discipline of nursing, and by preserving care and compassion as the ethical foundation of nursing practice and scholarship.

Nursing and the teaching of nursing are journeys through deep caring connections with patients, students, colleagues, and the discipline of nursing.  Nursing is imagined and known through caring, authentic presence with others, and multiple ways of knowing. Nursing is a presence to life lived with those entrusted to our care, a beacon, attentive to the extraordinary in the mundane and boldly entering questions of meaning. All stories of individuals and of the discipline are valued as necessary to the growth and advancement of the profession. Healing practice is possible in partnership relationships; nursing creates safe, welcoming places that encourage growth, seek to understand, and know each other’s hearts.

Nurses are called to care through advocacy, action, ‘power-with’, and trusting relationships with persons and groups in diverse settings. Nursing embraces diversity and commitment to social justice. With perseverance and fortitude, caring and compassion remain the ethical foundation of nursing practice and scholarship.

The nursing way of being requires reflective practice and listening that enable meaning-making across all dimensions of academic and practice endeavors. Nursing practice is characterized by thoughtfulness and necessarily lived out with intention. This way of being in the School of Nursing in all aspects allows our mission to be realized—educating nurses to transform the world.