Mission,vission and values
Mission
The Faculty of Nursing trains future professionals to be leaders in health management, able to apply critical thinking and reasoning and with a strong capacity for learning, professional initiative and problem-solving skills. Students will learn to apply scientific, humanistic and ethical principles, using a people-first, cross-disciplinary approach to meet a range of social and health demands.
One of our main goals is to guarantee full and comprehensive care for patients and their families, focusing primarily on health but also addressing the multiple aspects that relate directly to or interact with health and well-being.
The Faculty of Nursing carries out a range of activities based around four core areas:
- Teaching: training of bachelor's degree, university master's degree and doctoral students in the theoretical and practical aspects of the discipline, adapting courses to changing national socio-economic priorities and health demands. Students learn to carry out the specific tasks required in the different areas of healthcare and nursing.
- Research: scientific inquiry in health and nursing care to foster the scientific, technical and human development of research professionals. The Faculty's research contributes to innovation, technology and knowledge transfer and the dissemination of scientific knowledge, giving society access to cutting-edge scientific evidence in the field of nursing care.
- Lifelong learning: specialized lifelong learning programmes, giving professionals the opportunity to specialize and re-train, actions that are fundamental to maintaining quality and ensuring professional growth.
- Cultural outreach/social engagement: projects and collaborative actions with the wider community, working with health and education associations and institutions, delivering on the University's commitment of service to society.
Vision
- The Faculty strives to be a centre of excellence and a benchmark in the training of nursing professionals, building synergies between academia, research and healthcare, and establishing networks with public and professional organizations, institutions and other bodies.
- It aims to provide a didactic and educational model characterized by a combination of theoretical and practical learning, the use of innovative teaching methodologies, a close relationship with students, coherence between teaching, research and lifelong learning, high standards of quality, and a commitment to knowledge transfer to contribute to the enhancement of the health system. In other words, the Faculty seeks to train nursing professionals with a high level of expertise for professional success.
Values
- To promote excellence among teaching staff and students, to achieve the highest levels of academic and research quality and harnessing them for the benefit of society, to become a benchmark for excellence in the nursing.
- To encourage lifelong learning, helping nursing professionals to broaden and update their knowledge and address emerging challenges in the sector.
- To ensure respect for fundamental principles on integrity, equality, inclusion, freedom, respect, tolerance, safety and privacy.
- Comprehensive student training in academic excellence, professional expertise, research and innovation, and personal growth. Committed individuals with a strong sense of ethics and the empathy and values required by the nursing profession.
- Responsibility, collaboration, commitment, respect and institutional solidarity towards the University, with healthcare institutions, regional and national associations and bodies, and responsibility, collaboration, commitment, respect and solidarity with society.
