Leadership

Mission

Improving lives through nursing 

Vision

Transforming health through exceptional care, science, learning, and influence 

Values

The UVA School of Nursing is a learning community rooted in compassion and respect, and in lockstep with UVA Health and its ASPIRE values. As a community of students, faculty, and staff, we value: 

• Trust: We are a community of trust and integrity 
• Equity: We stand firmly for equity, inclusion, and diversity and against racism and social injustices of any kind
• Excellence: We pursue excellence in nursing practice and in teaching and learning, and believe learning is life-long
• Collaboration: We value problem-solving across programs and roles and collectively thrive when the environment is healthy, respectful, and caring
• Knowledge: We are committed to advancing science and developing evidence-based solutions that improve health, health equity, and healthcare 

Our Extraordinary Future: 10-Year Strategic Plan

Our Extraordinary Future: 10-Year Strategic Plan - Our Process

Initiated upon Marianne Baernholdt's arrival as dean in fall 2022, and among her top priorities, the School's strategic planning process was designed to be an inclusive, iterative process that would tap the collective knowledge, experience, and expertise of the School of Nursing community. Guided by UVA's Office of Organizational Excellence, a 10-member Strategy Working Group, Dean's Council members, as well as community members at large, who were invited multiple times throughout the process to contribute to and co-create a shared future direction for the School, our community embarked on a process of discovery and refinement as we collectively identified, explored, and developed emerging areas of impact and distinction.

Foundational to the process launch were a series of community conversations in which more than half of faculty and staff shared their insights and aspirations and identified big areas of opportunity. An All-School Strategic Planning Retreat in January 2023—that engaged more than three quarters of faculty and staff—was followed by work groups in later 2023 and early 2024. In summary, across the process, more than 30 working sessions gathered more than 100 members of the School community, work that led to the plan’s completion, the School's finalized plan, and our collective path forward.

Nearly 18 months after it began, and after a brief pause in spring and summer 2023 as the School prepared for multiple decennial re-accreditation visits, School leaders vetted the final draft of the plan in spring 2024 with the School community and key UVA and UVA Health stakeholders. 

Our Extraordinary Future: 10-Year Strategic Plan