Mission
The Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies, through an interprofessional learning model, will graduate healthcare professionals who will be prepared to provide quality, holistic, scientifically sound, and patient-centered care while optimizing the health and well-being of diverse populations and communities for the betterment of humanity.
Values
Graduates of the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies will be recognized by their practice and conduct as exemplary health professionals. The core values create the curricular framework for the continued development of our learners’ professional identity formation as healthcare professionals. The following ten core values are the tenets of professionalism to be demonstrated in the student’s new healthcare roles:
Collaboration: We work to enhance the healthcare professionals’, as well as communities of practice, collaborative efforts to partner with the populations we serve as well as our interprofessional colleagues to provide quality, safe patient care. Collegiality, teamwork and partnership will be the cornerstone of our success in the advancement of our commitment to the health and well-being of our consumers and each other.
Courage: We promote the ethical, moral and mental fortitude that enables our healthcare professionals, as well as communities of practice, to advocate in support of the healthcare consumers' values, beliefs, and preferences.
Diversity: In appreciation of the broad range of human needs and perspectives, we support a diverse learning community that prepares our healthcare professionals, as well as communities of practice, to provide care that embraces the commonalities and differences of our healthcare consumers.
Excellence: We are committed to developing healthcare professionals, as well as communities of practice, who challenge the existing norms to achieve exemplary value-based healthcare outcomes while increasing access to care.
Global Health: We prepare healthcare professionals to function in a variety of settings, as well as communities of practice, to impact global health.
Humanism: We prepare our healthcare professionals, as well as communities of practice, to deliver care that is respectful of and responsive to the preferences, needs and values of the healthcare consumer through effective communication and consumer participation.
Innovation: We believe in a creative and evolving educational approach to the development of healthcare professionals, as well as communities of practice, enabling them to respond to the ever-changing needs of a broad spectrum of consumers in a dynamic healthcare environment.
Leadership: We believe that leadership is an important value for all of our stakeholders. We will inspire both our faculty and students to have the courage to lead and positively influence the future state of healthcare in the 21st century.
Learning: We provide an interprofessional learning environment committed to student-centered academic and clinical development, personal and professional growth, and life-long learning.
Scholarship: We foster a culture of excellence that supports our faculty and students’ engagement in the continuum of scholarship, from discovery, integration, application and education, encouraging them to link scientific inquiry and cutting-edge research with the provision of high quality, evidence-based, patient-centered care to advance global health.
