Vision Mission Values

The partnership between Saskatchewan Polytechnic School of Nursing and the University of Regina Faculty of nursing developed vision, mission, and values statements to guide the development of the CNPP.

VISION: Leaders and innovators in nurse practitioner education.

MISSION: To anticipate and respond to changing nursing roles and health system needs by preparing graduates who demonstrate leadership and excellence in practice, research, education, and administration.

Program values include:

• Relational Ethics. Creating an ethical, caring space in understanding the patient’s unique life context, including values, beliefs, needs, and wants.
• Patient Safety. Preventing and mitigating unsafe acts within the health care system to assist patients to achieve an optimum level of health.
• Cultural Safety. Examining the complex, historical, political, social, cultural, and economic structures that influence health, social relations, practice, and power relationships. Using an action-oriented approach to move the nurse practitioner and patients from unknowing to knowing.
• Collaboration. Developing a unique relationship with patients and other inter-professional care providers to provide optimum patient care. This to ensure continuity of care when identifying conditions requiring management outside their scope of practice and collaborating with other providers to ensure patient needs are met.
• Scholarship. Is the process and outcome arising from continuous inquiry and reflection and underlies every action and decision including discovery, teaching, service and application and integration.
• Innovation. Fostering an environment in which new ideas can emerge and lead to creative approaches, solutions, and actions.