Mission
Statement
The Baccalaureate
Nursing Program
at APSU is a four- year
program designed to prepare a professional nurse
generalist as described by the ANA Standards of Clinical
Nursing Practice. The nursing student comes to the
University with knowledge, skills and values that are
expanded and modified through the educational process
and the liberal arts curriculum developing an
educational base for life-long learning and an awareness
of diversity and its effect on self-care. Faculty serve
as role models, demonstrating mastery of nursing
knowledge, skills, and a commitment to the profession of
nursing.
Program
Outcomes
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To
prepare beginning professional nurse generalists as
described by the ANA Standards of Nursing Practice;
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To
develop an educational basis for life-long
learning; and
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To
develop an awareness of diversity and its affect on
self-care.
Philosophy
The School of Nursing, as an integral part of
the University, is in concert with its mission and
purpose. Consistent with the overall University mission,
the School of Nursing emphasizes the preparation of
knowledgeable professional nurse generalists who meet
present and future health care needs. The faculty
believes a professional nursing curriculum is based on
educational content supportive of their beliefs about
individuals, society, health, nursing and learning. The
nursing curriculum is built on a foundation of liberal
arts, natural and social sciences. The Orem Self-Care
Model is seen by the faculty as an appropriate basis for
nursing practice.
Individuals living in their unique clusters have
dignity, rights, and worth. Individuals have
responsibility for their actions and may be held
accountable for them. Each is an integrated whole
composed of biophysical, psychological, spiritual, and
sociocultural elements. An individual develops through
life cycles and stages. They have varying abilities to
meet hierarchical needs as they strive toward health,
growth, and self-actualization. Culture is viewed as the
context within which self-care behavior is learned.
Society is composed of individuals, groups and
communities. It is dynamic and shares a reciprocal
relationship with integrated patterns of human behavior.
These patterns interact to reflect the culture which
includes common traditions, institutions, activities,
interests and norms. Through continuous influence
between internal and external environments the
individual groups and communities maintain their
universal health requisites.
Health is a state uniquely defined by the individual
within the context of culture. The biophysical,
psychological, spiritual and sociocultural aspects of
health are inseparable. Health is modified by time and
self-care ability. The faculty believes that illness is
identifiable and is a deviation from health. Illness
reflects an imbalance among those identifiable holistic
aspects of health and decreases an individual’s ability
for self-care.
Nursing is a dynamic practice discipline whose focus is
caring for individuals, groups and communities using a
holistic approach. Nursing is any action or behavior
undertaken by the nurse in the professional role in
order to affect the individual’s, group’s, or
community’s’ response to universal and therapeutic
self-care demands. Education in the liberal arts and
sciences provides the foundation for the nurse to
understand the biophysical, psychological, spiritual and
sociocultural aspect of individuals, groups or
communities. Nursing is comprised of actions and roles
involving human service, interpersonal process and
technology. Actions and roles are deliberately selected
and performed by nurses to help individuals, groups, or
communities under their care to maintain or change their
self-care practices. Actions are developed through
assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcome identification,
planning, implementing, and evaluating. The professional
nurse generalist roles include: teacher-counselor,
advocate, leader, manager and researcher.
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