Vision / Mission
Vision of the future...
To be recognized as a leading center for nursing education in the Northwest.
Mission
The Department of Nursing, an integral unit of the College of Health Sciences, provides effective and efficient service to the community through a quality multi-faceted nursing educational program. Graduates demonstrate:
- clinical excellence in a variety of settings
- life-long learning through intellectual curiosity and educational achievement
- professional values and ethical principles
- commitment to service and health advocacy including policy development
- leadership as members of collaborative, interdisciplinary health care teams
- the ability to provide caring, holistic, and quality nursing services to diverse populations
- the ability to assume technical and professional nursing roles
- and the ability to pursue graduate study.
Faculty, staff and students actively promote health and wellness in themselves and in the diverse populations they serve.
Values
- Employee Focus: We care about each other, encourage personal growth and recognize accomplishments.
- Student Focus: We assist and encourage our students to succeed and embrace life long learning.
- Quality: We provide exceptional education and promote continuous quality improvement.
- Integrity: We demonstrate personal mastery and principled leadership.
- Teamwork: We achieve our greatest success by working together as a learning organization.
Philosophy of Nursing
Nursing is the art, science, and discipline of caring for people through the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health and wholeness across the life span. The essence of nursing involves communication, critical thinking, collaboration, caring, education, advocacy, ethical behavior, and a commitment to life-long learning. Nurses contribute collaboratively and independently to quality client care, education, research, and responsible resource stewardship. Nurses practice in a variety of roles and settings where nursing roles are determined by education and appropriate competencies.
Philosophy of Nursing Education
Nursing education is both experiential and theoretical. It draws from adult learning principles which the student is an active participant with progressive responsibility for independent learning. Nursing education is a dynamic process which stimulates intellectual inquiry, independent judgment, critical thinking and the internalization of professional values as well as skills. Students are initially motivated to learn through carefully guided experiences. Scientific objectivity and analysis are essential critical thinking skills for nurses. As the student prepares for roles of increasing nursing complexity the educational process becomes more inquiry based. Nursing education is best facilitated via institutions of higher learning and through partnerships between the students, faculty, clients, families, communities, health care delivery systems/agencies and professional groups.
