Last year, the National League for Nursing (NLN) Board of Governors used the acronym DICE to represent the NLN's core values of diversity, integrity, caring, and excellence. This year, as before, I invited members of the Board to provide a message about specific elements of the NLN mission, in their own words. We are reinforcing the Mission of the NLN: The National League for Nursing promotes excellence in nursing education to build a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the health of our nation and the global community.
President Pat Yoder-Wise: Excellence
I will begin with excellence. Excellence refers to the quality of being outstanding; to serving with distinction. Simply stated: that is the NLN.
President-Elect Kathleen Poindexter: Build a strong and diverse workforce
A strong and diverse workforce is a collective group of individuals with unique, visible, and invisible similarities and differences that include characteristics, values, beliefs, experiences, backgrounds, and preferences. The NLN is committed to building a strong and diverse nursing workforce through education to improve equal access to quality health care and to reduce disparities.
Secretary Cheryl Killion: Advance the health of our nation
In taking the pulse of our country, we strive to ensure its integrity as "one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty," health, "and justice for all." We embrace and promote our communal circulatory interconnectedness and rely on its strong, steady beat to enliven and sustain us.
Treasurer Anne Krouse: Advance the health of the global community
The NLN transforms global health outcomes by creating opportunities for nurse faculty to advance the science of nursing education in areas that transcend cultures and borders and contribute to the education of a global nursing workforce.
Governor Mark Hand: Excellence
Excellence is the quality of excelling, of being truly the best at something. Excellence means accepting only the best. Excellence is the heart of the NLN. The NLN promotes globally high standards in leadership, research, teaching, clinical practice, and scholarship.
Governor John Lundeen: Build a strong and diverse workforce
Diversity encompasses so much, and we accept the responsibility. We are committed to developing a nursing workforce that more closely represents the many populations in which we serve. That diversity makes our entire profession stronger and better.
Governor Ann Marie Mauro: Advance the health of our nation
As the premier organization for nurse faculty and leaders in nursing education, the NLN influences and promotes the health of our nation.
Governor Angela McNelis: Advance the health of the global community
We advance health by building the science of nursing education across the globe. Now, more than ever, our united efforts can change the world.
Governor Launette Woolforde: Excellence
Excellence is the best representation of ourselves and the core of who we are. Excellence is a value we embrace for ourselves, expect and admire in others, and encourage all to aspire to.
Governor Linda Moneyham: Build a strong and diverse workforce
Building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the populations nursing serves, to ensure that the voices of all people shape the discipline and practice of nursing and the quality of health care received by all, that is our goal.
Governor Michael Newsome: Advance the health of our nation
The evidence is clearly before us. The nation cannot advance without a healthy population. The health mission of the NLN is fundamental and critical to the survival of our nation.
Governor Mark Vogt: Advance the health of the global community
Now, more than ever, our role at the NLN is to advance the health of our global community through nursing education. Nurse educators are at the heart of our global response in creating a workforce to advance health.
CONCLUSION
The mission of the NLN is to promote excellence in nursing education to build a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the health of our nation and the global community. We have done so for the past 127 years, and that is what we are committed to today, tomorrow, and forever.