Goals
Program Objectives
At the completion of this program the successful nursing student will:
- Demonstrate age-appropriate, culturally sensitive professional ethics and values that incorporate professional standards; legal rules, regulations and policies; and ethical codes.
- Utilize resources to provide quality nursing care based on evidence-based practice that create, restore, promote, and maintain a safe patient care environment.
- Educate patients about health promotion practices and treatment modalities by integrating principles of teaching-learning, values clarification, assessment of strengths and needs; and cultural perspectives.
- Employ critical thinking based on evidence based knowledge make sound clinical judgments regarding patient care.
- Communicate effectively and ethically using oral, written, and technological methods to share appropriate information with patients, their support systems, health care providers, and relevant community members.
- Practice leadership and collaborative skills to coordinate and deliver comprehensive interdisciplinary and preventative health care to diverse individuals, families, groups, and populations across settings and among caregivers.
- Provide population-based care and services in practice that includes facilitation of health care access for those vulnerable patients with unmet health needs.
- Participate with stakeholders in health care decision making that includes supporting policy and systems that seek to protect the health of the community.
- Perform the role of a novice professional nurse who continues self-education, reflects social responsibility in service, and is accountable to ensure for quality health care within the global health care partnership.
Organizing Framework
Nursing is a dynamic profession blending evidence-based practice with intuition, caring and compassion to promote physical, mental and spiritual health and respond to illness or diminished well being of patients, whether individuals, families, groups, communities, or populations. Nursing practice focuses on the human experience and response, encompassing the concepts of person, environment, and health within the practice of professional nursing. Care of patients includes proving information that enables their learning and ability for self-advocacy and self-care.
This nursing curriculum complements the mission of the university and prepares successful students to be competent and caring practitioners. The curriculum is based on the works of nurse theorists, ethicists, researchers and practitioners as expressed through the unique body of nursing knowledge. Theories and research findings from other disciplines from the physical, economic, biomedical, behavioral and social science are also integrated based on their applicability.
Definitions
Evidence Based Practice
The conscientious, judicious use of the best available evidence from research, theory, individual clinician competencies and patient preferences for decision making in clinical practice.
Person
A member of humankind.
Environment
The physical place within which the patient exists and their perceived mental, emotional and spiritual atmosphere, milieu, or conditions.
Health
A feeling of wholeness, a sense of well being that may be experienced even in the presence of disease or injury.
Patient
Includes individuals, as well as families, groups, communities, and populations who are the recipients of nursing care (ANA, 2004).
Learning
A process whereby an individual takes in information that was previously unknown to them, or develops new insights on prior information, and is able to then use that knowledge to develop additional insights and/or appropriately apply that information.