Mission and Goals
Mission
To provide collegiate education, flexible in format and excellent in content and standards for the student, integrating professional, liberal arts, sciences and religious/ethics studies with community service and clinical experiences;
To produce a baccalaureate prepared nurse who integrates critical thinking, leadership in health care, expertise in nursing practice and social responsibility in the community and society at large.
Values
- Autonomy
- Human Dignity
- Altruism
- Integrity
- Social Justice
Student Learning Outcomes
Graduates Will:
- Synthesize knowledge from liberal arts, sciences and nursing as a basis for nursing practice.
- Assimilate professional values of caring, integrity, respect for human dignity and social justice into personal practice.
- Implement activities of nursing practice with respect, understanding, and sensitivity for cultural, ethnic, gender, and age diversity of individuals, families and communities to promote, restore and maintain optimal health.
- View the client as the individual, family and/or population, with a perspective that extends from a person and family to community, national and global health.
- Practice nursing along the health continuum of health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, acute care and chronic disease management and end of life care.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary health care providers, clients and other stakeholders in planning and delivery of health care.
- Integrate core competencies of critical thinking and scientific inquiry with ethical principles as a basis for making professional judgments.
- Employ scientific strategies and research capacity to provide evidence based care.
- Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for competency in nursing practice through continued learning and professional development.
- Assume a leadership role in meeting National and local goals in nursing and health care.