About Goldfarb School of Nursing

• Provide a learning-centered educational environment that respects and values the diversity of all persons
• Advance and disseminate knowledge to continuously improve nursing education, nursing practice and patient care outcomes
• Promote intra/interprofessional education for collaborative practice
• Facilitate the development of nurses who, within their scope of practice, provide safe, compassionate and ethical care in diverse communities
• Foster lifelong learning and reflective, professional practice
• Develop professional nurses to assume leadership and advanced practice roles to improve health care in their communities
• Improve the provision of nursing through evidence-based practice that incorporates the best evidence, professional expertise and patient and family values
• Practice to promote skills, patient safety, improved outcomes and access to information for clinical decision-making through an accountable use of technology
• Influence global healthcare through developing professional nurses who understand the social, political and economic forces impacting the provision of care and who actively participate in efforts to improve healthcare policy

Members of the community — students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni — share in the responsibility to support the School’s mission as an institution of higher education. Each member is expected to respect the purposes of the College, the goals of its programs and the views of its members.

The College community is governed by what ought to be rather than by what is. Each member is responsible for repudiating all forms of academic and intellectual dishonesty, treating each other with respect and dignity and acting with concern for the safety and well-being of all.

Inquiry, discourse and dissent within the ordered academic environment are key elements within the School. The community is supportive of democratic and lawful procedures, dedicated to the use of problem-solving approaches, open to change and committed to the institution’s historical values and traditions.