University of California-Los Angeles

Vision

The UCLA School of Nursing will lead and transform nursing science, how nursing is taught, and practiced.

Mission

The mission of the UCLA School of Nursing is to improve the health, wellness, quality of life and nursing care of the people of California, the nation, and the world through education, research, nursing care, and community engagement.

Core Values

The fundamental principles that guide all of our education, research, and practice include:

• Excellence: we continually strive for excellence.
• Innovation: we value creativity and imagination.
• Collaborative professional culture of diversity, equity and inclusion: we value a culture of inclusiveness, mutual respect and justice.

Five pillars of excellence for the Strategic Plan include: Academic Programs; Research and Scholarship; Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI); Community Engagement, and sustainability. These pillars are interlinked with one another, and do not stand in isolation. DEI strategies support excellence across all other pillars. In keeping with the campus strategic planning efforts to insure a focus on Institutional Effectiveness, a summary of administrative strategic goals and efforts that have been underway in the SON are included in the Appendices.

The goal of each pillar includes specific recommendations for objectives along with key strategies/actions and metrics with target dates for evaluation to accomplish these objectives for the four-year time period.

Pillars + Goals

Academic Programs

Goal: To create and sustain educational programs to prepare the next generation of nursing leaders and scholars to provide outstanding nursing care, conduct and disseminate state-of-the-art research and scholarship, and promote interprofessional healthcare delivery.

1. Transition 2-year APRN MS program to 3-year APRN DNP curriculum.
2. Create new revenue generating entrepreneurial programs.
3. Increase practice opportunities for students at UCLA Health (in-patient and primary care). and at the Greater Los Angeles VA Health Care System.
4. Enhance innovative instructional approaches and content within courses to integrate pandemics, social determinants of health, and DEI (e.g. racism, social justice, gender bias)
5. Implement faculty teaching evaluation.
6. Expand recruitment strategies to increase enrollment in the PhD program.
7. Develop a series of Preparatory Accelerated Learning Space (PALS) coaching seminars designed to support incoming students’ academic success, as budget permits.