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Mission Statement
The mission of the Department of Nursing at Coe College is to
prepare graduates to practice professional nursing. Professional
practice emphasizes primary prevention to promote the health
and wellness of the whole individual, group, and community within
their environment. When there are actual alterations or
risks to one’s wellness potential, this practice will encompass
secondary and tertiary preventative strategies. In addition,
realizing the growing diversity of the population, the nursing
graduate is also prepared to sensitively care for clients of
all ages and genders who come from diverse cultural, racial,
ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds,
and lifestyle choices.
To accomplish the mission of the Nursing Department, the faculty
believe that students need an education that is an integration
of the liberal arts, natural and social sciences, and professional
courses. The liberal arts and science courses assist students
in developing essential values and attitudes, which are needed
for being productive members of society. These characteristics
as well as professional competencies are necessary for students
and graduates to function appropriately in the various roles
encompassed in the practice of professional nursing.
The essential qualities that our graduates are expected to attain
include critical thinking, communication (verbal, nonverbal and
written), assessment, and technical skills. However
other qualities are emphasized including information management,
leadership, environmental sensitivity, ethical awareness, and
motivation for continued lifelong learning. A liberal
arts college is an ideal setting in which to obtain these skills
that become a foundation for development of professional competencies.
Professional competencies that our graduates are expected to
develop include conceptual competence in the domain of nursing,
application of theoretical knowledge through the nursing process,
and ethical competence as it relates to the practice of nursing
through the assimilation of professional values (caring, altruism,
autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice).Caring,
specifically, is the essence of nursing and most central to the
practice of professional nursing.Professional
competencies also include scholarly capacity to improve cost
effective and quality nursing care through the utilization of
research, collaborative skills as designers, managers,
and coordinators of holistic care, and technical ability to perform
appropriate psychomotor skills as providers of care.
The professional competencies embody the Essential of Baccalaureate
Education for Professional Nursing Practice, the American Nurses
Association Scope and Standards of Practice, and the PEW Health
Commission Competencies. The nursing faculty believe these professional
competencies can best be obtained through the development and
implementation of a nursing course of study that is organized
within a conceptual framework that focuses on four major components:
nursing, health, and human/ environment interaction patterns.
Terminal Outcomes (Goals)
Upon graduation, the student will:
- Integrate
appropriate theoretical and empirical knowledge from the liberal
arts, natural and social sciences, and nursing science for
critical thinking within the practice of professional nursing.
(Evaluation)
- Evaluate
the effectiveness of the nursing process for assisting individuals,
groups, and communities to maintain and attain their wellness
potential throughout the life process. (Evaluation)
- Assess client
information to diagnose human responses to life processes that
may affect the wellness potential of individuals, groups, and
communities, and intervene with primary, secondary or tertiary
preventative strategies. (Evaluation)
- Assume a
leadership role in collaborating with consumers and the health
care community in promoting an environment for the wellness
potential of individuals, groups, and communities. (Application)
- Differentiate
communication skills needed to provide support, promote positive
coping, and reinforce accurate perceptions with diverse patients/clients,
groups, and communities. (Application)
- Incorporate
a variety of nursing roles to assist individuals, groups, and
communities in managing human responses to life processes. (Synthesis)
- Display personal
accountability and social responsibility in the practice of
professional nursing by considering the moral, ethical, legal,
and political implications of their actions. (Application)
- Appraise
and utilize selected research findings for providing cost effective
and quality nursing care. (Evaluation)
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