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Values & Aims

  • Produce exceptional graduates with a sound knowledge and understanding of their contribution to health and wellbeing. Our graduates will demonstrate leadership and innovation, be attuned to diversity, and be active in the local and global communities.
  • Maintain excellence and equity in nursing and midwifery education through the provision of accessible quality education programs which are responsive to current health care needs.
  • Inspire nurses and midwives to fully engage in knowledge generation and translation to ensure the delivery of high quality care.
  • Encourage and support the development of career researchers to make a significant contribution to improving the health and wellbeing of society.
  • Enhance the contribution of nurses and midwives to inter-professional education, research and practice.
  • Foster strong relationships with service providers and users.
  • Engage with the community by providing leadership and service through participation in public discourse.
  • Forge strong international teaching, practice and research collaborations that will contribute to Millennium Development Goals.
  • Promote a workplace that fosters collegiality and academic excellence amongst all staff and students.

The School provides educational programmes, which are:

  • Fit for Award: this is provision at a pace and level of study and in line with standards of scholarship equivalent to similar courses throughout the University, and meeting the University's requirements for the specific award and the requirements of the Statutory Body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
  • Fit for Purpose: courses are designed to meet the needs of Health and Social Services for the preparation of staff who are safe and competent practitioners within specific care or client group settings.
  • Fit for Practice: courses have specific learning outcomes that relate to the knowledge, skills and attitudes to practice that are: patient/client centred; clinically effective; competent and safe; evidence-based; established on caring and ethical principles.


Within this context the School aims to:

  • Provide pre-registration and post-registration programmes that meet the needs of service and the standards of the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
  • Stimulate personal and professional growth by fostering skills that promote independent, lifelong learning.
  • Develop understanding of research-based knowledge to enable students to promote evidence-based practice.
  • Fulfil mature students' educational needs by offering access at various levels, flexibility in the pace of study and certain modular choice relevant to their practice area.