This document discusses Walden University's mission, vision, goals, and values and how they relate to becoming a scholar-practitioner committed to social change. It provides the mission and vision statements of Walden University and its School of Nursing. It prompts the reader to reflect on how Walden's perspectives align with their own professional and academic goals and how they plan to incorporate social change.

1. Discussion: Mission, Vision, and Personal Goals
Discussion: Mission, Vision, and Personal GoalsORDER HERE FOR ORIGINAL, PLAGIARISM-
FREE PAPERS ON Discussion: Mission, Vision, and Personal Goals****APA format**** 500
words****Double spaced***References of information usedMission, Vision, and Personal
GoalsAre you familiar with Walden University’s vision and mission? Discussion: Mission,
Vision, and Personal Goals. Were they a factor in selecting this University? How do they
relate to your professional and academic goals of becoming a psychiatric mental health
nurse practitioner? Does it matter if there is a tight or loose relationship or one at all? This
week’s Discussion asks you to think about how the Walden mission and vision and the
School of Nursing (SON) mission and vision apply to your professional and academic goals.
Is there a match? How does Walden’s mission and vision relate to your becoming a scholar-
practitioner committed to social change?To prepare:Review the Walden and SON mission
and vision statements, Walden’s goals and University Outcomes, and the MSN Program
Learning Outcomes presented in this week’s Learning Resources.Reflect on your
professional and academic goals as they relate to your program/specialization.Consider
how the information in the documents, identified above, fit with your own goals and to your
becoming a scholar-practitioner.Think about how you will incorporate your commitment to
social change into your professional and academic goals, particularly as it relates to the
area(s) of interest represented by your program/specialization.By Day 3Post a description
of one or more significant ways in which Walden’s and the School of Nursing’s perspectives
(i.e., vision, mission, social change message, and outcomes) relate to your professional and
academic goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner. Include how you plan to
incorporate social change into your professional and academic goals.Support your
Discussion assignment with specific resources used in its preparation using APA formatting.
You are asked to provide a reference for all resources, including those in the Learning
Resources for this course.Walden University’s Vision, Mission, and GoalsReturn
to:IntroductionVisionWalden University envisions a distinctively different 21st-century
learning community where knowledge is judged worthy to the degree that it can be applied
by its graduates to the immediate solutions of critical societal challenges, thereby advancing
the greater global good.MissionWalden University provides a diverse community of career
professionals with the opportunity to transform themselves as scholar-practitioners so that
they can effect positive social change.GoalsTo provide multicontextual educational
opportunities for career learners.To provide innovative, learner-centered educational
programs that recognize and incorporate the knowledge, skills, and abilities students bring

2. into their academic programs.To provide its programs through diverse process-learning
approaches, all resulting in outcomes of quality and integrity.To provide an inquiry/action
model of education that fosters research, discovery, and critical thinking and that results in
professional excellence.To produce graduates who are scholarly, reflective practitioners
and agents of positive social change.Social ChangeWalden University defines positive social
change as a deliberate process of creating and applying ideas, strategies, and actions to
promote the worth, dignity, and development of individuals, communities, organizations,
institutions, cultures, and societies. Positive social change results in the improvement of
human and social conditions.This definition of positive social change provides an
intellectually comprehensive and socially constructive foundation for the programs,
research, professional activities, and products created by the Walden academic
community.In addition, Walden supports positive social change through the development of
principled, knowledgeable, and ethical scholar-practitioners, who are and will become civic
and professional role models by advancing the betterment of society.University
OutcomesWalden University strives to produce graduates with the knowledge, skills, and
abilities to:1. Facilitate positive social change where they work, in their communities, and in
society.2. Use their knowledge to positively impact their profession, communities, and
society.3. Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning.4. Apply their learning to specific
problems and challenges in their workplace and professional settings.5. Demonstrate
information literacy.**Information literacy is defined as the ability to know when there is a
need for information, and being able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that
information for the issue or problem at hand.6. Demonstrate an understanding of the
methods of inquiry used in their professional or academic field.7. Practice legal and ethical
integrity in their professional work.8. Effectively communicate their ideas and the rationale
behind them to others.9. Support diversity and multiculturalism within their profession,
communities, and society.University Values – Discussion: Mission, Vision, and Personal
GoalsQuality • Integrity • Student-CenterednessValuesThree values—quality, integrity, and
student-centeredness—are the core of the university and the touchstones for action at all
levels of the organization. They demand high standards of excellence, uncompromising
openness and honesty, and primary attention to the progress of our students. These values
and principles give Walden University its unique identity and underpin the Walden
University mission.QualityWalden University believes that quality and integrity are the
cornerstones of all academic processes.Walden University believes in innovation and
flexibility in the conception and delivery of its educational programs, and that there are
many different academic routes to achieve quality and integrity.IntegrityWalden University
believes that education and social change are fundamental to the provision and
maintenance of democratic ideals and principles, especially that of the common
good.Walden University believes that its learners effect positive social change when they
behave as reflective or scholarly practitioners.Walden University believes that the
inquiry/action model fosters critical thinking and underpins research and discovery for
reflective practitioners (bachelor’s and master’s students) and scholar-practitioners
(doctoral students). This model provides the framework for teaching, learning, and
assessment.Student-CenterednessWalden University believes that all adult learners should

3. have innovative educational access, especially those who are without opportunity in other
venues.Walden University believes that academic programs must be learner-centered,
incorporating learners’ prior knowledge and allowing them to focus their academic work on
their needs and interests.School of Nursing School of Nursing Vision and GoalsSchool of
NursingOur School of Nursing offers academically rigorous and culturally relevant
programs that prepare you to improve the quality of patients’ lives, communities, and
healthcare institutions.Designed to provide you with a lifelong learning path for every stage
of your career, the School of Nursing offers a full suite of online undergraduate and
graduate nursing programs, certificates, multiple degree paths, and specializations ranging
from nursing education to nurse practitioner.All of our courses are developed in
collaboration with healthcare industry experts and led by doctoral-level faculty, connecting
you with the best practices in the field, expert instruction, and professional mentorship. Our
programs also feature fieldwork experience, which provides you with an opportunity to
apply your learning in a practice environment.Our VisionThe School of Nursing envisions
recognition as a preeminent 21st-century school of nursing in which the contributions of
nursing, health, and related sciences will transform the provision of nursing services along
the continuum of care and across the human life span to meet the needs of individuals and
local and global communities.Our MissionThe School of Nursing provides academically
rigorous and culturally and contextually relevant educational programs, based in the
scholar-practitioner model, for a diverse array of nursing professionals seeking
enhancement of critical thinking skills, abilities to select and implement evidence-based
practices, and core and specialty nursing knowledge in order to transform society.Realize
your potential to make a lasting difference in nursing. In the Walden University School of
Nursing, you’ll advance your career on your own terms. Choose from our:CCNE-
accredited bachelors program for registered nurses (BSN)CCNE-accredited Master of
Science in Nursing (MSN)CCNE-accredited Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)Ph.D. in
NursingPost-master’s certificate in nursing for access to the most current thinking and best
practices. Discussion: Mission, Vision, and Personal Goals