Alpha Epsilon Chapter of
Sigma Theta Tau International

Mission and Overview

Mission
Sigma Theta Tau International is committed to fostering excellence, scholarship, and leadership in nursing to improve health care worldwide. The society promotes the use of nursing research in health care delivery and makes its resources available to all people and institutions interested in the latest knowledge in nursing care.

Overview
Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing, is dedicated to improving the health of people worldwide through increasing the scientific base of nursing practice. Its members are nursing scholars committed to the pursuit of excellence in clinical practice, education, research and leadership.

The Society believes that broadening the base of nursing knowledge through knowledge development, dissemination and use offers great promise for promoting a healthier populace. To achieve this goal, Sigma Theta Tau International is committed to furthering the use of nursing research in health care delivery as well as in public policy. It sustains, supports and interprets nursing's development and provides vision for the future of the discipline and health care through its network of worldwide community of nurse scholars. It is a non-political organization that makes available its diverse resources to all people and institutions interested in the scientific knowledge base of the nursing profession.

The Society's 220,000 scholars live and work in 73 nations, and are inducted into Sigma Theta Tau through one of its 356 honor societies located at colleges and universities in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia. Sigma Theta Tau International ranks as the second largest nursing organization in the U.S. and one of the five largest in the world. Its annual budget exceeds $4 million, and has been balanced for the last two decades.