The UWI School of Nursing, Mona, as a leader in nursing education in the Caribbean is in the forefront of developments not only to transform nursing education but to transform the image and practice of nursing. The School has been designated the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Development in the Caribbean. The School of Nursing offers rigorous world-class undergraduate and graduate programmes based on innovative models of nursing education. We currently enroll approximately 1,200 students in our baccalaureate and master’s programmes and have launched the first PhD Nursing programme in the Caribbean region in the 2011-2012 academic year. Our main aim is to prepare graduates who are nurse leaders and thinkers and who are clinically competent and ‘career ready’.

The vision is that the UWI School of Nursing, Mona will be recognized regionally and internationally for providing excellence in nursing education through innovative programmes that are responsive to global health challenges and for generating high quality interdisciplinary and international research.

The mission of the UWI School of Nursing, Mona, is to lead the Caribbean region in delivering undergraduate and postgraduate evidence-based nursing education which reflects international standards; engaging students and nurses/midwives in scientific and scholarly inquiry and critical thinking; facilitating the transfer of knowledge and skills that foster caring throughout the life cycle and the wellness-illness continuum; and promoting excellence in evidence-based practice in nursing/midwifery.