NAQC’s mission is to Advance the highest quality, safety, and value of consumer-centered health care for all individuals—patients, their families, and their communities.

To achieve this aim, the NAQC will work to ensure that:

• Patients receive the right care at the right time by the right professional.
• Nurses actively advocate and are accountable for consumer-centered, high quality health care.
• Policymakers recognize the contributions of nurses in advancing consumer-centered, high quality health care.

The establishment of the NAQC is based on the assumption that only with a stronger, more unified nursing policy ‘voice’ will dramatic and sustainable achievements in quality and safety for the American public be achieved.