Mission
The UNC Charlotte School of Nursing empowers graduates to provide holistic care and advocacy in diverse, interprofessional healthcare environments through excellence in education, research, scholarship, clinical practice, and service.
Vision
Our vision is to provide the highest quality of nursing education, scholarship and practice with a commitment to community engagement in order to promote health among citizens in the Charlotte region and beyond.
Values
The UNC Charlotte School of Nursing embraces the following five core values:
Integrity - Responsibility, honesty, dependability, ethical behavior, accountability, transparency, and trustworthiness of faculty, staff and students.
Innovation - Reflected through progress, program expansion, transformation of ideas, novelty, excellence, growth, and distinction.
Collegiality - Partnerships, teamwork, community engagement, interdisciplinary practice, caring, cooperation, professionalism, and courage.
Diversity - Inclusion, respect for self and others, fairness, equality, and justice.
Scholarship - Faculty and students engaged in academic nursing who demonstrate commitment to inquiry, generate new knowledge for the discipline, connect practice with education and lead scholarly pursuits to improve health and healthcare (AACN, 2016a).