MISSION - DEPARTMENT OF NURSING

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.

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VALUES - DEPARTMENT OF NURSING

Autonomy

Human Dignity

Altruism

Integrity

Social Justice

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES - DEPARTMENT OF NURSING

Graduates Will:

1. Synthesize knowledge from liberal arts, sciences and nursing as a basis for nursing practice.
2. Assimilate professional values of caring, integrity, respect for human dignity and social justice into personal practice.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Practice nursing along the health continuum of health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, acute care and chronic disease management and end of life care.
6. Collaborate with interdisciplinary health care providers, clients and other stakeholders in planning and delivery of health care.
7. Integrate core competencies of critical thinking and scientific inquiry with ethical principles as a basis for making professional judgments.
8. Employ scientific strategies and research capacity to provide evidence based care.
9. Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for competency in nursing practice through continued learning and professional development.
10. Assume a leadership role in meeting National and local goals in nursing and health care.