Vision, Mission, Goals, and Philosophies

The College of Health Professions

Vision

The College is recognized for its innovative leadership in education, practice, scholarship, and service to improve health and the health professions.

Mission 

The College’s mission is to educate and challenge diverse students in the health professions to be leaders, innovators, and lifelong learners who will positively impact local, national, and global health.

Core Values 

• Commitment to quality care
• Cultural competence
• Innovation
• Integrity
• Interprofessional Collaboration
• Scholarship

The Lienhard School of Nursing

Vision

The Lienhard School of Nursing will lead nursing education through the advancement of evidence-based practice and scholarship in primary health care.

Mission

The Lienhard School of Nursing is an inclusive learning environment that prepares diverse nurse leaders in evidence-based, equitable, person-centered, primary health care by integrating an innovative pedagogy with interprofessional partnerships, scholarship, and practice to improve health and wellness for all persons and populations.

Core Values

• Equitable, person-centered care
• Evidence-based practice
• Primary health care

Philosophy

Informed by our rich legacy, the Lienhard School of Nursing ensures health equity by preparing diverse nurses to provide safe, high-quality, person-centered nursing care that is grounded in an evidence-based framework of primary health care.

Goals

• Produce competent practitioners who meet professional standards and fulfill the mission, vision, and philosophy of the Lienhard School of Nursing, the College of Health Professions, and Pace University.
• Provide a quality education within urban and suburban settings to serve diverse communities.
• Foster teaching, learning, scholarship, and service within a community of integrity that respects all persons and values health care as a social right.
• Prepare nurses to be global citizens.
• Educate baccalaureate students in curricula that value a high level of nursing competence, clinical reasoning, and effective communication to provide a broad foundational base for professional nursing practice in complex and diverse healthcare environments with a primary health care worldview.
• Educate master’s and doctoral students with a depth and breadth of knowledge, skills, and philosophy necessary for advanced nurse leaders to promote health, innovate practice, and expand scholarship in complex and diverse healthcare environments with a primary health care worldview.