Nursing
MISSION, PHILOSOPHY, EXPECTED OUTCOMES & CURRICULAR MAP
Mission for the MSUM Nursing Department
To provide baccalaureate education that prepares professional nurse for lifelong learning, caring service and global citizenship.
Philosophy of the Nursing Program
The discipline of nursing is framed by a metaparadigm consisting of four major concepts: person, environment, health and nursing. As a discipline, nursing encompasses the components of nursing science, the art of nursing, personal knowledge, and ethics. The discipline continues to evolve from the interrelationships among nursing theory, research and practice.
The person within the metaparadigm is defined as a client or patient. A client may be an individual, family, group, community, or population. We believe in the uniqueness and worth of our clients. This belief underlies our philosophies of nursing and education, and values both the commonalities and the diversities of people.
Environment encompasses the client's internal and external circumstances and surroundings. These include physiological, psychological, cultural, spiritual, economic and social influences, and the client's perception of these influences. We believe that the client is in constant interaction with the environment.
Health is maximized potential and well-being. The goal of nursing is to promote optimal health of clients along the continuum of life and death.
Nursing is a dynamic, deliberative and interpersonal practice used to provide holistic care to clients. It includes health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, and illness and disease management. Critical thinking is used within a deliberative decision-making framework. Congruent with ANA's Scope and Standards of Practice, 2004, we believe nursing is a dynamic profession, blending evidence-based practice with intuition, caring, and compassion to provide quality care. Caring, integral to professional nursing practice, encompasses the nurse's empathy for and connection with the client. Caring is demonstrated in compassionate, sensitive, and appropriate nursing care that preserves human dignity and nurtures the human spirit. Nursing occurs in diverse setting and is responsive to the changing health care needs of a global society.
Professional nursing education is critical to the development of learning as a lifelong process. We believe that baccalaureate nursing education prepares generalists and is the preferred entry level to professional nursing. We believe the use of technology in nursing education expands students learning opportunities and prepares them to practice more effectively in a technologically driven world.
Expected Outcomes
The student will:
1. Integrate concepts from the arts, humanities and sciences with nursing science as a basis for evidenced based, professional nursing practice.
2. Communicate clearly and effectively.
3. Apply critical thinking skills in deliberative decision-making.
4. Provide holistic nursing care in increasingly complex situations in diverse settings.
5. Provide ethical nursing practice that respects the uniqueness and worth of the individual.
6. Design, manage and coordinate nursing care within the context of local, national and international perspectives.
7. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills to continue intra and interpersonal role development of the professional nurse.
Curricular Map
Approved by Department of Nursing Faculty 9/13/05