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Mission
The mission of the School of Nursing is to enhance and improve the health and well-being of the people of North Carolina and the nation and, as relevant and appropriate, the people
of other nations through its programs of education, research and scholarship, clinical practice and community service. The School accomplishes its mission as a steward of the public interest by:
- providing high-quality education within an environment
of scholarly inquiry to prepare competent and compassionate
practitioners, scholars of and leaders in nursing who will
actively contribute to the goal of a healthy state and nation;
- generating, integrating, disseminating and using knowledge
for practice and policy;
- creating vibrant and supportive lifelong learning environments
to ensure a cadre of nurses who value and participate in
scholarship and lifelong learning and who can quickly respond
to and effectively address the changing health needs and
problems of the state and nation;
- ensuring equal and fair access to its programs to guarantee
that a professional group diverse in gender, race/ethnicity
and culture are ready to serve a similarly diverse population;
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- fulfilling its covenant of care with the publics it serves.
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