Skip to Content

College of Nursing

  • Faculty and students on Horseshoe

Mission

The University of South Carolina College of Nursing prepares graduates who care, inspire and lead to advance science, practice, and policy to optimize health for all.

Vision

To be a preeminent College of Nursing that pioneers innovation, leadership, inclusive excellence, and service with local, national and global impact.

Values

Inclusivity, Commitment, Caring, Integrity, Respect, Professionalism


Strategic Priorities

  • People & Environment: Promote a vibrant, respectful, and caring environment that recruits, retains, and fosters an inclusive and talented community of students and employees while optimizing our infrastructure.
    • Signature Initiatives: Mentorship & Professional Development, Climate, Infrastructure (fiscal, spatial, talent).
  • Education & Student Success: Inspire graduates with clinical competence and cultural humility through student-centered learning to lead, transform, and deliver exemplary evidence-based nursing care, conduct research and scholarship, and improve healthcare delivery systems.
    • Signature Initiatives: Competency-Based Curriculum, Technological & Student-Centered Innovations, Leadership.
  • Research & Scholarship: Lead and boldly transform research and scholarship that encompasses discovery to translation, consistent with USC Nursing’s values.
    • Signature Initiatives: Infrastructure (Lab, Staff), Biobehavioral Variables, Health Equity, Research Centers, External Funding.
  • Practice, Service, & Partnerships: Cultivate and expand regional, national, and global initiatives with innovative practice, service, and partnerships.
    • Signature Initiatives: Telehealth, Strategic Partnerships, Philanthropy.

Challenge the conventional. Create the exceptional. No Limits.

©