The University of Toronto Graduate Nurses’ Student Society represents, supports and advocates for graduate nursing students. The society provides leadership and facilitates social, academic, and networking opportunities, promotes student-faculty relations, and acts as the voice for the graduate student body.

GNSS Executive Officers and Officers are democratically elected graduate nursing students who work independently and as a team to achieve the following GNSS aims:

1. To represent, support and advocate for graduate nursing students at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing (LBFON).
2. To provide leadership, to promote social involvement and to develop mentorship activities at the LBFON.
3. To promote student-faculty communication advocating for and utilizing existing channels of communication through which students’ opinions may be expressed.
4. To promote students’ rights and responsibilities.
5. To promote academic freedom and academic responsibilities.
6. To foster awareness of students’ position in the faculty, campus, local, provincial, national, and international communities.
7. To enhance professionalism by providing a forum in which members may gain experience in responsible leadership and community involvement.

The intended audience is all graduate students in the LBFON.